Word: peapack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PEAPACK-E. B. White- Harper...
...Peapack, Poet White has collected 68 poems, including five rhymed book reviews, some songs of "childbirth, paternity, and routine domestic disturb-ance," love songs and a few on cosmic subjects which he says he included only to keep his franchise. His dislikes-inverted sentences in TIME, the works of Walter B. Pitkin, publicity, perfume and economic theory-stir up Poet White only briefly, and the only really bitter work in his collection is addressed to Vittorio Mussolini, inspired by Vittorio's description of his "exceptionally good fun" bombing Ethiopians. Of TIME Poet White complains...
...industrial entity unto itself but in Morristown, Mendham, Madison, Summit. Plainfield et al. live countless families whose heads have 9:30-to-4:30 o'clock jobs in the city, who are not quite so socially smart as the residents of Somerset County (Far Hills, Bernardsville, Peapack) with 10-to-4 o'clock jobs, but who do hold a higher head than the 9-to-5 commuters of Essex County (Montclair and the Oranges). They own comfortable homes, drive two cars, belong to country clubs, invest in stocks & bonds, vote the Republican ticket straight. Last week these conservative...