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Beware the Newfangled! Though he could doubtless make more money elsewhere, Dr. Fishbein stays on with A.M.A. (at $24,000-which he doubles by outside writing and lecturing) because he loves his job. His entire working life has been spent on the Journal; he became the assistant editor in 1912...
But Texans by & large are for it because 1) it has given them something new to brag about and 2) it will make them richer. They do not mind that more than 90% of the new investments have so far been made by outsiders. But Texans would not be Texans...
Among the women in the adobe huts of town and desert, many of whom had never had medical help in delivery, word soon spread of a newfangled, less frightening way to bear children. For a $10 fee ($15 out of town), the sisters gave mothers a six-week, prenatal course...
¶31% had never heard of it, or were not sure whether they had or not. Asked one: "What's that-some newfangled idea again?"
The Irrational Knot (1880), longest and woodenest of the three, is mostly about the hazards of marriage. It abounds in high-toned dialogue: "'Oh, Marmaduke! How dare you speak so of your betrothed.' " But even at 24, Shaw was already crusading (in this case against closed bedroom windows...