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Furze, meanwhile, marries a waitress whose full bosom heaves with eagerness to scrub the floors he walks on. She, Rose, shares his passion for the practical, his desire to toil and spin and then plough fields to get up a sweat. With her he is happy...
Visitors from the West flocked to the exhibition, and almost without exception their choices were different from those of the New Yorkers who had voted. They voted for the two maturer women, marked by toil and strife...
...never been said of members of Phi Beta Kappa that they toil not. But sometimes they have been accused of not spinning; of not contributing anything save an air of distinction, or pedantry, to their college community...
...Crane, lots of others. The real article?starving after 40 and 50 years of incessant toil, squeezed dry and cast aside, no good for anything but this sideshow. Case 56 is pretty: 'chuckle-voiced, hat-doffing Charlie the Iceman.' Now 'Charlie's on the shelf. Old and sick and done for. And forgotten.' Listen to Gene Tunney himself on the superb specimen in case 46: Mr. and Mrs. Pat Malloy, 74 years old, worked all their lives, k.o.'d by a taxicab going home from work. Now 'the grey end. . . . They are slaves of a social system. . . . Nothing they...
Yesterday an officer from the City of Cambridge came and told the Dramatic Club that The Barn is to be torn down this morning. The widening of Church Street has taken toil of several structures in the neighborhood, but had spared The Barn. Now it is the turn of that ancient and venerable building...