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Hard Times: For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic conditions of the era. Hard Times is unusual in several ways.
sent for: to be ordered to a meeting with other mob members and being whacked. shakedown: to blackmail or try to get money from someone; also to give someone a scare. shy: the interest charged on loans by loan sharks. shylock business: the business of loansharking. sitdown: a meeting, esp. with another family.
Jefferson City, Mo.: State Times Printing House, 1870. Geiger, Mark W. Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865. Yale University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-300-15151-0; Mackey, Robert R. The UnCivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861-1865. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004
Hard Times is known for providing an equal representation of experiences across a broad spectrum of socio-economic status, interviewing famous and influential people as well as others from a range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds. [1] It has been called "A true classic!
The Well-Spoken Thesaurus by Tom Heehler (Sourcebooks 2011), is an American style guide and speaking aid. The Chicago Tribune calls The Well-Spoken Thesaurus "a celebration of the spoken word". [1] The book has also been reviewed in the Winnipeg Free Press, [2] and by bloggers at the Fayetteville Observer, [3] and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ...
And it's hard hard times. Go out in the mornin', go on if it's still, It's over the side you'll hear the line knell; For out goes the jigger and freezes the cold, And as for the startings all gone in the hole. And it's hard hard times. The fine side of fishing we'll have by and by, The fine side of fishing we'll have a good buy;
Thomas Gradgrind is the notorious school board Superintendent in Dickens's 1854 novel Hard Times who is dedicated to the pursuit of profitable enterprise. [1] His name is now used generically to refer to someone who is hard and only concerned with cold facts and numbers.
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl is an American history book written by New York Times journalist Timothy Egan and published by Houghton Mifflin in 2006. It tells the problems of people who lived through The Great Depression's Dust Bowl, as a disaster tale. [1]