Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sales vice president when he quit in 1929 in the hope of working into the ownership of some likely business. He picked the Real Silk Hosiery Mills, but after two years there, took to the brush again. He rented the first floor of an old tobacco shed in Westfield, Mass., founded Stanley Home Products, and with six associates sold $72,000 worth of polishes and brushes the first year...
Beautiful Sophia was the youngest, reared by her mother as a fragile invalid only to shed her ailment when handsome Nathaniel Hawthorne made her his wife. The second sister, Mary, was the quiet one who married famed Educator Horace Mann-but only after sister Liz had made maidenly passes at Horace which included combing his hair. Liz never did get the men she coveted at various times of her long life, though one suitor seems to have committed suicide when Liz decided that he "was not sound-minded nor well-principled...
...illusions seem to have been shed both subtly and cataclysmically. Ideas such as those of Freud which had been around before the turn of the century invaded thinking they had never been intended for. Loss of faith in reason spread to the painters and poets and eventually evolved into such aberrations as Dadaism and Surrealism. However, these were the sensitive areas, and the folks in Sauk Center, Minnesota had not yet been moved by it at all. Joyce had to build upon an ancient myth to get any order into his world, but most of the more modern myths still...
...that I understand how even the people in Sauk Center have come to wear a harassed, uncertain look, I can return to civilization for another fifty years. Perhaps with the illusions shed man will grow more mature by the year 2,000. Or perhaps the unpleasantness of looking at himself and the world unadorned will cause him to revert once again to his tribal ways. I noticed you deified another man last month--let's see, that makes the third this century...