Word: pedlar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Punch cartoon showed a servant of Her Majesty's Treasury waving aside a bearded gentleman with a bundle of pictures. The caption: "Much obliged, but we are a nation of shopkeepers. We don't want any art today, thank you." The snubbed picture-pedlar, as every Punch reader knew, was a Lancashire-born sugar baron named Henry Tate. He had just offered 60 contemporary paintings to Britain's National Gallery-and had been turned down. Five years later, he retaliated millionaire-fashion by building Britain a brand-new gallery and throwing in his collection as a bonus...
Odell Shepard, Connecticut scholar, politico and Pulitzer Prize biographer (Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Al-cott), has collaborated with his son Willard Shepard on this outsized (250,000 words) chunk of historical fiction, in which almost everything happens except the storming of the Alamo and the rape of Lucrece. Holdfast Gaines, despite his name, is a Mohegan Indian, in the direct line of the great King Uncas himself. He is a nephew of Samson Occum-whom Dartmouth men will remember as an Indian protege of Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth's pious founder. Nathan Hale is Holdfast...
Odell Shepard is an idealist, a writer, a lover of Connecticut, a wanderer and a teacher. So was Bronson Alcott, hero of Shepard's Pulitzer Prize biography (Pedlar's Progress). Alcott was a failure at almost everything he tried; Shepard has been a success...
...Connecticut audiences Poet-Professor Odell Shepard, Pulitzer-Prize biographer (Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott) who quit lecturing at Trinity College to campaign for Lieutenant Governor, sang a political ditty called Old Connecticut Is Coming, F. D. R. He called it an orphan, but it looked like his child. Cracked his Republican opponent, tall, suave Dr. James Lukens McConaughy, who is not only Lieutenant Governor but president of Wesleyan too: "If the State wants a Lieutenant Governor who can serve as its poet laureate, count...