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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The clash of life has transformed many things for Old Campaigner Pugmire. William Booth had a horror of holier-than-thou, middle-class respectability. A fear of respectability is reflected by the commissioner, who is the true son of an evangelist, even if he was never a rousing evangelist himself...
*Original meaning: leader of the chortis.
It all started a couple of years ago when Homer Snowden decided it was a shame that Christmas had become so commercial. "People are forgetting the story of Christ's birth and the real meaning of Christmas," said Homer, a Texan through & through, a millionaire wildcatter, and as determined...
Texas to the Congo. It was as simple as the first: to publish a speller that would include pronunciation, meaning and usage, with exercises to match. The new speller and workbook swept the nation. Over the years, every schoolchild in Texas and Alabama, and half of those in ten other...
But E.B. White, poet, humorists, and editorial for the New Yorker, has written something called "Here is New York," has given it meaning, and has done all this in 54 pages. He did in the only conceivable manner: One summer day he left his sometime home in Maine (where the...