Word: toile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within this vale of toil...
...women sat quietly all day, all night; old women made gross by lives of toil, pale young women with high heels and disordered hair. They stared. Sometimes, with vague and automatic obedience, they drank coffee or ate sandwiches which were offered them. Sometimes a woman would unlock the padlocked chain on which her dead husband's street clothes had been hoisted to the washroom ceiling. She would take the clothes down, fold them, and leave. But the room stayed quiet-so quiet at times that the distant tolling of church bells, the twitter of sparrows in the rafters, could...
...Toil, Trouble, Disease. In even plainer copywriting words she told the admen...
...metaphysics, and theology. . . . [They] guarantee that [the reader] and everyone dear to her will live happily and untouched by tragedy for the rest of their natural days if she only has this jar of skin cleanser. . . . The unclogging of the pores north of her nostrils will shield her from toil, trouble, disease, disaster, and divorce...
...they could agree on Trieste if they could fix the U.N.-appointed governor's powers; they could fix the governor's powers if they could decide who would boss Trieste's police. And nothing was lost so far, except a lot of diplomatic blood, sweat, tears, toil. Cheap at the price, in other words, in the event of success...