Word: followance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surely interest and deficits shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the House of Roosevelt forever...
...same time. This system is hard on office-seekers but easy on the voters who have to turn out only once to hear all the candidates. To enter such a Democratic primary, each & every candidate binds himself to obey the party's rules, one of which is to follow the State-wide campaign itinerary drawn up by the State committee...
...fashionable companions turn into policemen and thugs who are chasing him everywhere; where his beloved changes her being whenever he tries to embrace her. Thereupon, too, The Moon's No Fool takes on its elusive moral tone as Author Matthews suggests the evil consequences and addled wits that follow from self-deception and acceptance of worldly standards. Ben is saved from drowning and from his twisted view of life by the despised Miserable Sarah. He goes back to the house party, weary and wiser, to face the scorn of the Queen and her court. But he finds that...
...suggest that the Reverend Father either become a politician and discard the collar, where I think he will be in his element, or return to the fold and follow the Great Man of Galilee...
...Some, like the promising but spineless Harvard intellectual, Dick Savage, have figured prominently in the previous volumes. Red-faced, hard-drinking Charley Anderson barely appeared in The 42nd Parallel; Margo Dowling, dissolute and disillusioned cinema queen, makes her debut in The Big Money. Dos Passos' method is to follow one of his characters through some meaningful experience or period in his life, then shift to another. Between chapters he inserts the short biography of some real public figure whose career forms an oblique commentary on the imaginary character just described...