Word: pilgrims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year began, the nation too "just had a sort of fear." The greatest boom in history was over the crest, and U.S. business had begun the perilous, booby-trapped road back to what it hoped would be "normalcy." The journey was not unlike Christian's trek in Pilgrim's Progress. The wayfaring nation started in the Slough of Dispond, went through Vanity Fair, passed the lion-guarded House Beautiful, profited from the counselings of Prudence, stumbled on the Hill called Difficulty, defeated Apollyon, a fiend, saw through the hollow words of Mr. Worldly Wiseman, encountered the contradictory Works...
...second glance this impression seems false. Little Miss Goudge (rhymes with Scrooge) is one of the most prolific and popular novelists now wielding a pen; with the help of the Literary Guild, her Green Dolphin Street (1944) and Pilgrim's Inn (1948) sold more than a million copies each. Yet in a deeper sense Novelist Goudge is just what she seems: a middle-aged Victorian lady with genteel literary inclinations...