Word: gophering
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...high hat with peaks on his lapels like unto those of Darien, Marie of Roumania and the President of the United States with a smile like unto that featured the day he caught a minnow in the Adirondacks, Marie of Roumania and Fifth Avenue, Marie of Roumania and Gopher Prairie, Marie of Roumania and the Grand Canon, Marie and the Pacific, Marie! Thus does the American press take to its heart the beloved of the Balkins and worry those who, with absurd faith in the direct desire of all Americans at all times for democracy, see in this primativism...
...because of any sane conviction that protection is better than liberty, that inequality in equality is too devastating a method of existence. Rather will it be the direct result of a good advertising campaign, backed by Butter and Eggers, outlined by gentlemen from a New York or Gopher Praicie agency, land dependent for its success upon the credulity of some and the sense of humor, of the rest...
Author Sinclair Lewis wrote a book, Main Street, the scene of which was "Gopher Prairie" (Sauk Center). In the book was a physician...
...flashy jackets, alluring blurbs? Hardly ever. Briskly, confidently, you seize an Oppenheim or a Dell, a Harry Leon Wilson, Sabatini, Irvin Cobb, Wallace Irwin, Arthur Train?not ham and eggs but just as reliable. A lot of fiction writers remain standard commodities whether you carry them out of the Gopher (Wyo.) Elite Drug Store or Brentano...
Although they have undoubtedly added moral and social simple-mindedness to political chicanery, long the besetting sin of journalism, the tabloids have, nevertheless, demonstrated that there is a "Main Street" on Third Avenue. Where Gopher Prairie gobbled private gossip, the Bowery relishes public scandal. Among the millions most unfortunately herded in cities, the starved minds fed by the new press are the literate leaders. It is in part their grotesque reflection in the picture papers that gives shape to the apprehensions of "The New Barbarians" and truth to the pessimism of "The Phantom Public...