Word: toils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...device must be which automatically and without expenditure of physical energy turns away from his door every socially-inclined acquaintance who presents himself. And as a strategic aid this respected appliance will be without a peer. Suppose, for instance, that an industrious scholar, after an evening of exacting toil, is regaling a few intimates with a case of oranges. All he has to do to secure absolute privacy is to turn the sign to "Go" if that is the word selected to indicate that an intellectual quarantine has been established--and no one, save only the grossest trespasser, will venture...
...problems of the Actopels, an ordinary middle-class family, were always true to life and generally funny. Pa, bent with thirty years of toil, has just been made head bookkeeper at the plant --the heart and soul of Cranetown. Horace, the eldest son, has married and is doing well in the export department, while studying psychology by mail. Dolores, his wife and her mother-in-law's echo, is learning to cook. His brother Gordon is on the eve of realizing his ambition: a Phi Beta Kappa Key at the Mid-State University and a job in the teller...
...gods were against him, but he saved the Escampobars and fooled the English. Arlette was happy with her man-and as, for the old rover, the Brother of the .Coast, the man of dark deeds but of large heart, when the English bullets found him, he found sleep after toil, port after stormy seas...
...hand, he dragged her after him to the dregs of a Chinese city--6, 560 miles! There "midst horrid shapes, and shrieks and sights unholy" the battle for purity took place a veritable wrestling match. Then came the long hard road back to respectability and New York--through peril, toil and pain 9,730 miles...
Following its traditional policy of rewarding unsung patriots,--peasant families of more than sixteen children for example,--the French government through the Ministry of Agriculture has undertaken to glorify honest and persistent toil by awarding to any farmer-proprietor who can prove that his forbears have cultivated the same plot of land for over a hundred years the order of "la Merite Agricole". Somewhat to the consternation of the Ministry the number of applicants who have come forward with proofs is relatively overwhelming. Some families claim that they have won the award several times over. One peasant has presented proof...