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In the absence of any precise idea as to what railways were, public opinion in Frick was against them; for the human mind in that grassy corner had not the proverbial tendency to admire the unknown, holding rather that it was likely to be against the poor man, and that suspicion was the only wise attitude with regard to it.
Rosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
working for the overthrow of Christianity, using Hollywood as a propaganda tool for Jewish interests, promoting jazz (“moron music,” as the Independent called it) to the masses for nefarious purposes, encouraging the wearing of short skirts and rolled stockings, and fixing the 1919 World Series, among much else. Accuracy was not its strong suit. A
... See moreBill Bryson • One Summer
Neither blackness nor “people of color” stimulates in me notions of excessive, limitless love, anarchy, or routine dread.
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
“lavender scare,”
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
through the yearbook carefully from cover to cover looking for him. He isn’t in any group picture or on any list of names.
William Maxwell • So Long, See You Tomorrow: Virtage International Edition (Vintage International)
needed, and applicable, today. 1 From The Queer Sixties. Patricia Juliana Smith, ed. New York: Routledge, 1999. 2 Bronski, Michael. Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2003.