Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such incidents and characters The God-Seeker is compounded. Aaron comes to know and fear tough Caesar Lanark, falls half in love with Huldah Purdick (while Selene is away), argues with a suave Catholic missionary, becomes friendly with Black Wolf, an Oberlin-educated Indian who is trying to convert the whites to the beliefs of the Indians. Finally he flees with Selene from the wrath of her father, becomes a prosperous builder in St. Paul (after marrying Selene), encourages his workmen to go out on strike, and on the eve of the Civil War is somewhat surprised to find himself...
...proletarian happy ending he persuades the union to accept a runaway Negro bricklayer as an equal, whereupon both he and Selene are voted honorary members. Author Lewis never lets the reader know whether, in his opinion, Aaron Gadd has found...
...among the fresher things that Double Muscadine has to say. The rest of the 335 pages reveal (in the words of the jacket) how "Martha ... a mere slip of a girl. . . began to learn the things about her husband that so many Southern women in slavery days had to know and bear in silence." Mississippian Kirk McLean is not only "downright fond" of scuppernong wine, he is also the father of at least two quadroons. One day a disgruntled and sulking yellow girl flavors the family tea with a dash of king's yellow, or orpiment, an arsenious pigment...
Test Case. In Green Bay, Wis., Municipal Judge Donald W. Gleason asked a man charged with grand larceny whether he wanted a lawyer, got a straight answer: "I don't know, Judge. This is the first time I ever got caught...
There are many matters on which PBK men would be entirely unsuited to advise, Gootenberg admitted, but "upperclassmen know more about Harvard than the average freshman adviser, and are more familiar with the requirements of different fields of concentration," he explained...