Word: warth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rich in solid, simple philosophy, fairly pungent with the fertile warth of the Iowa soil which nurtures its characters, "The Folks" is an understanding and deeply moving portrayal of the changing pattern of small-town life in the American Middle-West. Ruth Suckow does not look upon her people with the sophisticated, cynical, despising eyes of Sinclair Lewis, for she knows them well and has a true understanding of their problems and a profound sympathy for them in their struggle to adapt themselves to the basically altered conditions of modern life. The old security of farm, home, and church...
...idea. Though the punishment may not fit the crime, it is probably humane compared with the vengeance which the inconvenienced and thwarted users of the book would like to take upon the person of the offender. The offender, if he could realize the trouble he is causing and the warth he calls forth would probably mond his ways...
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