Word: saltcellars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough to remember the typical 1920 manufacturing plant -and how it looked "like a shoe-box with a saltcellar in front of it?" There was a great long brick mill (the plant) standing behind a very small management building (the office...
Poor Marie found it hard going. At the wedding, her husband refused to let the best man tear off the bride's garters and wear them in his hat-"a rude and nasty custom," he barked. At meals he propped a book against the saltcellar, read gloomily. Marie used to hear his Latin pupils screeching as he beat them (if they failed to screech in grammatical Latin, he beat them again). Marie had beautiful hair, but Husband Milton was entirely too occupied combing his own long locks to notice hers...
...many a cheerful hardhead, remembering some of Prophet Cherne's previous misfires, will empty the saltcellar on these predictions. Cassandra Cherne has been wrong before: notably when he erred by some $32,000,000,000 in his gloomy foreboding that war would cut the U.S. standard of living 25%. And some of Cherne's "startling" facts are not so startling e.g., that one-fifth of the nation's land (long in the public domain) is owned by the Federal Government, that this is somehow a threat to private enterprise. And even pushovers will wonder how Cassandra Cherne reaches his last...