Word: toiled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nearly grown up play; for the enjoyment of a pleasant status in late adolescence with a minimum of toil and discipline, delaying the serious work of life; for participation in an enchanting variety of congenial activities--athletics in particular--and the making of "desirable" contacts and friendships...
...OFFICE - Nathan Asch - Harcourt, Brace ($2.00). Some staccato words are ripped out. There is The Office: tape, shares, toil, sex, money. The office fails and you go home with the various people whose lives centre in it. A stenographer has to forget the junior partner and marry her boyfriend. The stupid figurehead of the firm trembles, tells his wife. Clerks curse, get other jobs. The junior partner brandishes his cane, plans to run away and be a heman; slinks to his father instead. The crooked partner plans another office. Author Asch seems to know his Wall Street and hate...
...Over them a short but beamy shag-pate, Caleb Gare, walking as though bent against a wind, whispering greedily to his black acres, caressing his blue-flowered flax in secret, eyeing his sows by lantern-light. In his cabin, a wife and children dulled and spavined by the cruel toil he holds them to with a miser's malice. Jude Gare, the one stalwart, deep-breasted daughter, who defies him, she having heard the wild geese honking down the high heavens. The night of Jude's escape, prairie fire drives Caleb to his beloved's bosom...
After much toil and tribulation, the packing industry has at length arrived at the haven of prosperity. In 1924 demand for packing products held up well, while the short corn crop made the supply of hogs coming to market small. This enabled the packers to get good prices and at the same time reduce inventories...
...through his toil bestowed upon himself...