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Word: brokendown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theme is its title: Possession. Ellen Tolliver would not let herself be possessed by the dirty, mean little town where her father, a brokendown politician, and her mother, a purposeful woman, had brought her into the world. She would not let herself be possessed by the adoring little husband who worshiped her while she was meeting the people she wanted to meet, those who lived on a larger scale. It was hard on the people who wanted to possess her and could not. She pitied them but that was all. Her mother she left behind. Her husband pined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Calculated Climbing | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

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