Word: harkness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back to the good old antebellum days grandpa used to hark back to so often, we find they had very little of the political and economical ailments with which we are so sorely afflicted. We will find, also, that they had no telephones, telegraph, airplanes, radios, television, automobiles, and such trains as they had would not run faster than 25 miles per hour...
...Irish were starved, killed, ground down. The same calm was exhibited in the case of the Boers, and while the Russian ally of Britain was knocking off some million Christians. But now, NOW, the villain is an enemy -and a much and rightly feared one-of England, and hark to the uproar...
...maids and men, hark well to me, Sing Aleluya-wellaway! Full blest shall such a wooing be, Sing hey, God loves a lover! For they that meet in chapel cell, Are wooed and won and wedded well; Their lives ring sweet like chiming bell, Forever and forever...
...Cantor: Hark! Out of the deep . . . Dark . . . Inner vast . . . Gulf of carnal sleep . . . Full, fast . . . Thou up-wellest . . . One . . . As on a sea . . . Remote! . . . No Thee . . . And Thine . . . Ineffable, lavished . . . Zest . . . In ravished . . . Rest . . . Divine! (Soft shudder of great gong...
...time for a dash on the young colt through country lanes in Connecticut, for tramping over wet hills, bag over shoulder, pushing a golf ball from bog to bog, trap to trap, and every so often sinking a birdie. Time to rise with the dawn, and hark to the lark in the trees by the edge of the lake in the morning mist, and watch the forsythia push forth in glory. And for the evening there's time to push to the metropolis for the theater or a spot of late dancing, just a touch of urban revelry to season...