Word: toils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SHOW-OFF ? Glorifying the great American loud speaker. You all know him ?the man who talks so loudly and so long he has no time for toil...
...novels number 82. Two are to be published posthumously. She was not a slow and painstaking writer, stringing her words like gems through hours of precious toil. She allowed twenty chapters to a novel, wrote a chapter a day.* Her themes never varied. They always had to do with love?fervid, magnificent love. Her exemplary heroes and heroines she invariably nursed benevolently to a final altar?at least to an engagement ring. They might always be presumed to live happily ever after...
...seems now that neither of these ideas were correct. Harrison G. Dyar, an entomologist of the Smithsonian Institute comes forward with the answer. He was the sapper of those mysterious passages. Weary with his day's toil Mr. Dyar found pleasure in donning overalls, throwing a pick and shovel over his shoulder, and digging tunnels beneath the most exclusive residential sections of Washington, the capital...
...product of hours and hours of patient toil...
...Program. "We are prepared to offer a Democratic program based on Democratic principles and guaranteed by a record of Democratic performance. These principles are: A belief in equal rights to all men and special privilege to none; in an ever wider and more equitable distribution of the rewards of toil and industry; in the suppression of private monopoly as a thing indefensible and intolerable; in the largest liberty for every individual; in local self-government as against a centralized bureaucracy; in public office as a public trust; in a government administered without fear abroad or favoritism at home...