Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...home, gentle-born Jenny, his wife, descendant of the Duke of Argyle, planned and scrimped and did not whine. "Len-chen'' (Helene Demuth), given to Jenny by her mother as a wedding present, slaved till the end of her life with little or no pay, while the Master was writing tomes about the exploitation of the working class. Friend Engels was at Manchester holding down a job and scheming how to get hold of more and more money. Marx's letters to Engels had one refrain: "Lend me?" Eventually Engels sold his interest in a textile business, settled an annuity...
...successful publicity director, but he was once a drunkard suffering from delirium tremens with all its accoutrement of weird hallucination. A pest to his family, he voluntarily entered various asylums for "cures," but remained involuntarily. Worst of the lot was the private sanitarium which he entered docilely enough, till he noticed the barred windows and thug-attendants. He thereupon tried to leave, but his board, $40 a week "and extras," was too valuable to the "doctor." Lashed to an iron cot in the canvas sack that was a straitjacket, North 3-1 struggled in vain to escape; and, doped...
...grip upon their modern descendants. Modern methods of artificial duplication serve sufficiently to erect a set upon which these youthful actors may display their talents, such as they are, and gratify the eager ambition of parents to whose benefit the family shirt may now be waved advantageously. Capitalists give till it hurts in this new phase of war on the social front, while the first line bows in and backs out of the presence of that intangible essence that will insure them the envy of associates at home. The full length photograph, the feathers, the train, the reminiscences fondly embroidered...
...Harvard shell jumped almost a length at the start, and opened up water gradually at a steady 32 stroke till it had a three length lead at the bridge. Here the water grew rougher, and although both crews dropped the stroke to a 30, the Crimson eight continued to draw gradually ahead, and held its lead in the final sprint, covering the mile and 5-16 in 7 minutes 7 seconds. The engineers were clocked at 7 minutes 25 seconds...
...roommate is coming along, and a graduate in Cambridge for a day or two has as little chance of seeing how one of the boys from home looks on the gridiron as he has of observing Achilles among the shades. Of course if he waits till Saturday, pays the proper amount of money, and has remembered his field glasses, he can catch a glimpse or two, but by that time what the British refer to as the "funsomeness" of the sport has departed...