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Word: tipplers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dint of his five sons' persistent labors, Benjamin masters a wretched twitch-sown farm, only to deed it away to the boys' flighty stepmother. This village wench marries, after Benjamin's death, a footless tippler who turns the five brothers out and lets the farm go to ruin. In years past four of the brothers had tried to escape the farm, two for Canada, one for the glamorous army, and another to marry his Jessie, but the soil lured them back. Exiled now, their only thought was to return, and at the first opportunity they bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soil | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

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