Word: pedlar
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...