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Word: scourger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...literary sensations then went, The Jungle (1905) flaying Chicago's stockyards, The Metropolis (1908) flaying Manhattan and The Brass Check (1919) flaying journalism, were equivalent to the later temblors of Main Street and Babbitt. And it may be to the ian, constitutes himself the scourger of Vulgarity. Upton Sinclair, Marxian pedant, is the novelistnemesis of Capitalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sinclairism | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

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