Word: simmerdown
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...this new civilization a stranger is surprised to find so many women given up to dress-reform and pre-Raphaelite poetry; it is generally supposed that in America there is so much to be done, so much boiling and bubbling to simmerdown that there is no time for these chimerical dabblings in the literature and art which denote a civilization that is well shaken down and settled. It is supposed that these elements only come to the surface when a civilization begins to rot from its own tedium, that they are the gases therefrom caught in balloons and allowed...
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