Word: sauk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democratic National Convention of 1912 ("I was there"), labor unions in Eastern Pennsylvania, the French horn, the U.S. textile industry and its ramifications, commercial fishing, religious orders of the Episcopal Church, French schools, Russian art, Australian slang, Washington, D.C. bureaucracy ("as distinct from political & diplomatic Washington"), dairy farm terminology, Sauk Centre, Minn., water polo, Austrian dialects, the game of Go, harness racing...
From Lake Winnibigoshish to Dirty Nose Lake, Minnesota's fishing resorts were jammed. A rowboat couldn't be had without ah advance reservation; most of them were signed up for the rest of the season. Izaak Waltons from towns like Bemidji, Sleepy Eye and Sauk Center got out their flies and corks, all hell bent to catch one of the 1 ,000 prize fish planted by Minneapolis Radio Station KSTP...
Arkham House, publishers, wrote from Sauk City, Wis., to ask whether he had anything on hand. The presiding genius of Arkham House is 3 7-year-old Sauk City-born August Derleth, an avid writer of supernatural tales himself. Derleth has brought out upward of a dozen books under the Arkham imprint, all of them dealing with ghostly matters. Among his latest books, under another imprint: Who Knocks?, a Derleth-edited anthology subtitled Twenty Masterpieces of the Spectral for the Connoisseur...
...left all but a few U.S. readers unmovedd. Main Street moved them. When it appeared (1920), U.S. readers swooped upon it with a cry of shocked delight, and made it their own. Gopher Prairie, first savagely repudiated and then eagerly claimed as the pen name for Lewis' birthplace, Sauk Centre, Minn., was a cartoon of all U.S. small towns slashed on in strokes broad enough to be unmistakable to the most reluctant. Its inhabitiants, at once fearsome and folksy, were at best expertly stage-managed simulacre of U.S. small-town types, at worst human caricatures of something ineluctably real...
...Scourge of Sauk Centre. Sinclair Lewis was born (1885) in Sauk Centre (Minn.). His father was a country doctor. So was his grandfather. So is his older brother Claude, who still practices in Sauk Centre. (His eldest brother Fred is a Sauk Centre miller...