Word: loner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shabby little house. They have nothing to lose and may have much to gain by joining. Orders are to elect as many officers as possible, so each club always has a president, several vice presidents, a secretary and many committee chairmen. Then some young attaché of the Loner machine like Herbert Christenberry, brother of the Senator's Washington secretary, makes a speech promising them all a home, an automobile, a radio, $5,000 in cash, an income of not less than $2,500 a year, old-age pension, a free university education for their children-as soon...
...American soul beneath the sectional variations which he defines so accurately. The American heart that is not contented asks, "How?", not "Why?". The why of Fredonia, the generic term for the land of the United States, is lost beyond the last long hills over which the soul of Trist Loner ran its ghostly last. In a hurry to tell the news. That is American, Trist's hurry to tell the news, old news that is new in a young land...