Word: toils
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...cattle man, who tend their flocks and herds beneath the wintry stars and scorching summer sun, and when the tiller of the soil, who tickles the earth with the plow that she may laugh forth her golden harvest, are all assured that the rewards of their prudence and honest toil shall not be filched from them...
...Dewey's trip through Montana, I want to state, here & now, that it struck more than one sour note. The general impression it gives of a raw undeveloped State (third largest in the Union, I believe!) inhabited by a handful of horny-handed sons of toil, is hardly flattering...
Once he was a farm boy in Illinois, hating the black soil and the toil, reading the Bible and Shakespeare, yearning for Thespian grace and glory. He was a student in Kansas, boning for the law and persuading his roisterous fraternity fellows to pay a farmer for four stolen turkeys. He was a starveling lawyer, writing orations for practice in the hot, sandy afternoons; galloping his horse to & from a young man's fun in the Kansas night. He was the smartest sprig in Idaho, taking up for downtrod Chinese, farmers, Mormons while he served the corporations which owned...
...painting of 20 huge murals for the library of the new Department of Justice Building in Washington. Artist Sterne has been working on them ever since. On display last week in Manhattan's Fine Arts Gallery went the fruit of his four and a half years' toil...
Secession by Consent. In the single lifetime of His Majesty, who was born in 1858, the Swedish people have increased from fewer than 4,000,000 to over 6,200,000-almost as many people as live in London or New York City. The Swedes have devoted their whole toil and savings during this period to peace and social progress, eschewing the waste of war. As a child, Gustaf V was sent to a Stockholm private school and his then reigning uncle, King Karl XV, was engaged at this time in shepherding a gradual constitutional change, whereby effective political power...