Word: schoolfellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...woman's fortitude mocked by the inevitability of sheer want. First one child dies of starvation, then another, then the weary husband. And in the end there is nothing left but her crippled child, and bread lines. Again, in the mood of the Russians, a story called "Schoolfellows" recounts a good man accosted by his old schoolfellow who offers conversation in return for drink, more conversation in return for more drink. The good man evades, demurs, insults, but the other's desire for drink is greater than these, and nothing avails the man but flight...
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