Word: mortgagee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A Day to Remember. In Pittsburgh, St. Cyril's parish celebrated the final payment on a mortgage with a cheery party; the document was burned-and so was a tidy little portion of the church.
But there was work to be done: pigs to be castrated and vaccinated, worn (but irreplaceable) farm machinery to be repaired. With the help of his two sons, he moved the new pigs into the open lot. He picked up one, looked at it carefully, and shook his head. "Pigs...
That old country was utterly unlike the prairie farm-a farm so big that the old man had never learned to work it. But his big son, Pier, putting all his strength into the job, got rid of the mortgage that first bumper year. And Nertha bore him a boy...
As the deep winters and stormy summers passed, the loess (heavy deposit of windblown dust) gradually washed and gullied away. Nertha, too, changed. She suffered Pier and worked for him. At last she became barren, apathetic, shrewish. When Teo, their little boy, was six, he was already doing a man...
Shining Career. But Genaro was established as presidential bootblack. He bent over the shoes of stern Plutarco Elias Calles, of genial Emilio Portes Gil, of absent-minded Abelardo Rodriguez. He went on the palace payroll ($45 a month). Courtly Pasquel Ortiz Rubio sent the presidential limousine for him. President Cardenas...