Word: leda
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...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...
...Story. By the death in unexpected poverty of her father, Leda Perrin was left at the mercy of her cousins, the Crumbs, of the town of Prospect. The Crumbs are "good folk who are wicked." They need no description. There are Crumbs everywhere-the intolerable product of the standardization of humanity. They think the same thoughts, eat the same food, do the same things and do them always in groups. A Crumb, finding himself alone in anything would very possibly go mad. They are gross, suffocating vulgarians. Among them are Orrin, the Gideonite salesman, bristling with esprit de corps; Tweet...