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| | Crusaders: a machine-readable transcription. |
 | | Their house had been a refuge for the exiles of '48, including Victor Hugo who sat with the children on his knee, imbuing them with a staunch hatred for the rising bourgeoisie and the colonialism of Britain and France. |
 | | The pattern of the migrating, lost, silent, drunk father is a mid-west pattern, and accompanying that picture is the upright fanatical prohibitionist mother, bread earner, strong woman, isolated and alone. |
 | | the miserable mining communities where she met in shacks and white steepled church the harried, devout, half-maddened women who saw the miserable pay checks go weekly at the corner saloon, and who attempted to stave off poverty and the disappearance of their husbands by smashing the saloons. |
| lcweb2.loc.gov /gc/lhbum/13869/13869.sgm (19210 words) |
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