Word: kennicott
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...marks at school, is beloved. The daughter, Adelaide, is the high spot of the Pinney family. She is gifted with a budding intelligence which begins to blossom under the beneficent influence of her pleasant if uninteresting romance with a book agent whom she finally marries. Adelaide is the Carol Kennicott, the Lulu Bett, the Leda Perrin of Poor Pinney. She gropes vaguely for something outside the stuffy household of her youth...
Wilbur.-"Main Street," Sinclair Lewis's familiar novel made into a plausible and entertaining play, Mckay Morris makes a realistic Doc Kennicott...
...somehow, it is not routine; each day the same thing seems different. Wherein lies this difference? At Gopher Prairie, Carol Kennicott found doing the same thing every day boredom incarnate; but it is not so here, Because, at bottom we are living in an intellectual community; in Gopher Prairie Carol sound no intellectual life, and tried in vain to stimulate it. Here it seems almost as though a great many were trying to avoid it; in spite of them however, it persists, and on the solid foundations of this intellectual existence is based the apparently monotonous round of everyday activity...