Word: karcher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sudden love for Mamie, by whom he has another son, but whom he loses to the dissolute Jake Karcher, and the mocking success of the hated "hell-hole," incites him to a deeper love for farm and Georgie. There is a pathetic truthfulness in the father's struggle and efforts to keep his son's attitude like his own when he early realizes that the little fellow is not entirely out of sympathy with the glass industry. He tries to pass this off and the simple defense mechanism in his words "You and me is farmers nothing else" is strikingly...