Word: maining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...animal spirits do not last even in animals. They belong to the kitten or puppy stage. It is a wholesome thing to enjoy for a time, or for a time each day all through life, sports and active bodily exercise. These are legitimate enjoyments, but if made the main object of life, they tire. They cease to be a source of durable satisfaction. Play must be incidental in a satisfactory life...
...with a visit to White Pine Camp. Long after the magnates have returned to their less conspicuous affairs, the impression lingers that somehow President Coolidge is Prosperity. Last week, Mr. Coolidge announced that he would not take active part in the November Congressional campaigns, that prosperity was still the main issue. Political observers tend to agree that the President has executed a masterly summer campaign...
Author Sinclair Lewis wrote a book, Main Street, the scene of which was "Gopher Prairie" (Sauk Center). In the book was a physician...
...having their own ghosts, both life and afterlife being bestowed by simple or sensitive folk. And always house furnishings are noted, with the piercing significance and tenderness that made Amy Lowell so distinctly a poet of her time and place, racy. Titles intimate the subjects: "The House in Main Street," "The Note Book in the Gate-Legged Table," "The Rosebud Wall-Paper," "The Real Estate Agent's Tale." The title of the collection came, perhaps, out of Amy Lowell's love for a fresh breeze off the ocean, bringing rain to dry New England in hot summer...
...keynote of the conference was to be "the synthetic age," when man will not have to go beyond the chemical laboratory for his material needs, compounding them of the main life-supporting chemical elements. Advance apostles of this curious era had been propounding their visions at the Williamstown Institute of Politics, where President James F. Norris of the Society warned sentimentalists that, along with all other human activities, wars were going to be conducted with increased laboratory efficiency, employing poison gases and other destructive chemicals. Other speakers-not without opposition-discounted humanity's programs for conserving natural resources such...