Word: walloon
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...farm, makes an only half-serious promise to Karelina (then just in her teens and worried about life) to help her if things get too much for her. Before long she needs his assistance. She is married off to one Gomar t'Joens, and Gomar -a typical Walloon peasant, roundheaded, hard-drinking, tough-natured - soon proves to be a caution for cats. His small inn becomes a way station for tobacco-smuggling across the French border, and, as Gomar gets deeper into the racket, Karelina's life sinks to that of a drudge in a roistering, rustic underworld...
...work has been done by its General Secretary, Charles S. MacFarland. Stoop-shouldered, square-jowled, limping a little, a deeply earnest Christian, he travels indefatigably from state to state, from nation to nation. In 1923, he made 225 speeches at 250 conventions. Last year, he organized the Hugue-not-Walloon celebration, selling $25,000 worth of tercentenary coins, for which he was bitterly assailed as an "unscrupulous propagandist." He it is who must keep the 30 churches harmoniously in line. Says he to one of the churches: "You must trust the other 29," and it does. He makes the Council...