Well, the plethora of hyphenated words today can be attributed to people running roughshod over the language. A hyphenated word accepted as such, for example, sit-up, is in the dictionary that way. Grammatically, you should hyphenate compound adjectives: a ten-year-old boy, for example....
He could write a protest song and you can do a benefit concert, but Harry was more than that. He literally got his hands dirty doing the work, and figured out what the root causes of hunger and poverty are and attacked them in every way. He spent a good portion of the most v...