Word: grayson
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...indeed America's deepest wisdom, many will put the book down with the feeling they are being fobbed off with the obvious and the sententious. The biggest giveaway is Lin's acceptance of the late Ray Stannard Baker in his role-under the pen name David Grayson-of a horny-handed outdoor...
This shrewd journalist and Pulitzer Prizewinning biographer (Woodrow Wilson) in his peasant disguise is quoted more often than Lincoln. Santayana and Oliver Wendell Holmes, and just about as often as Franklin and Thoreau. Not many U.S. workers would go along with Grayson-Baker's ideas of the simple life: "Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and homemade bread-there...