Word: etc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...government in which every man would have a say. There are a few other details which the man-in-the-street* remembers or not according to temperament and inclinations, such as filling up the plentiful spare time which Socialists would have with free love, books, Art (meaning painting, sculpture, etc.), and eating vegetables. A pious man-in-the-street usually suspects Socialism of connoting also Atheism. Shy men-in-the-street think it involves going around in public without any trousers on. Lazy men-in-the-street have heard that Karl Marx listed Work as a prime ingredient...
...play is largely a talk fest dealing with such stuff as the cruel 'ard capitalists, the workingman's brotherhood, bread and betrayed daughters, etc. ad infinitum...
Apex Westinghouse and sewing machines, manglers, fans, floor polishers, etc...
...other invention is an explosive which consists of finely divided carbonaceous material (coal, root, etc.) which liquid air, under cautious control, ignites. It is "cheaper and more volatile than dynamite...
...Yale 1918. Other members of the class: Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison, Ohio State Senator John Martin Vorys (son of William Howard Taft's political sponsor, Arthur Isaiah Vorys), Playwright Philip J. Q. Barry (You and I, In a Garden, etc.), Book Critic John Chipman Farrar, Novelist Wilmarth S. Lewis (See MILESTONES, p. 24), Chevalier Artemus L. Gates of the Legion of Honor, Newell Garfield (presidential grandson), Arthur Yales (gargantuan golfer...