Word: abash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Friends made in the Young Men's Bible Class at his uncle's church abash his rusticity, put him in touch with the spirit of the time, to Succeed. They introduce him to drink, which he adopts moderately, and to Evelyn, an anemic young lost lady of the bars, whom he idealizes and takes unto himself with comparative propriety. Gaslit love* in a hall bedroom lasts until she gets a chance to go on the road with one of the immoral, new-fangled "leg-shows." Sam celebrates her departure with an attack of pneumonia that cancels his disgrace at home...
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