Word: mateyness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Matey, youngest daughter of a clever, ineffectual professor in a Midwestern college, suffers like her brother and sister from the constant but never recognized warfare between her father and mother. Francis pretends not to notice, Priscilla becomes a terrified invert, Matey says nothing but notices everything. When her father dies, Matey goes to Rustdorf, sleepy Hudson River town, to collect a legacy, meets her distant cousin Adrian, marries him and settles down. But both have lived in France ; when the War comes, both feel a duty to help. They take their children abroad, Adrian drives an ambulance, Matey helps...