Word: pseudartist
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...brief scraps of autobiographical reminiscence, picks out quick scenes, quickly vanished, from these 17 years. The main story tells the lives of five people whose lives gradually converge: Mac, wobbly (I. W. W.) linotyper; Janey, Washington stenographer; J. Ward Moorehouse, "public relations counsel"; Eleanor Stoddard, Chicago pseudartist; Charley Anderson, mechanic from Fargo, N. Dak. And here and there, in a kind of chorus to the whole action, are prose-poem biographies of big men of the day-written half like news paper obituaries, half like Whitman poems: Eugene Victor Debs, "Big Bill'' Haywood, Luther Burbank, William Jennings Bryan...
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