It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 36 The ban on information at the Trianon camp had been raised; Mrs. Candy had come calling on Doremus--complete with cocoanut layer cake--and he had heard of Mary's death, the departure of Emma and Sissy

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It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 37 His beard had grown again--he and his beard had been friends for many years, and he had missed it of late. His hair and mustache had again assumed a respectable gray in place of the purple dye that un

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Chapter 38 His packing was done. It had been very simple, since his kit consisted only of toilet things, one change of clothes, and the first volume of Spengler's Decline of the West. He was waiting in his hotel lobby for time to take the train to Wi

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It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 31 As the open prison van approached the concentration camp at Trianon, the last light of afternoon caressed the thick birch and maples and poplars up the pyramid of Mount Faithful. But the grayness swif

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It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 18 In the little towns, ah, there is the abiding peace that I love, and that can never be disturbed by even the noisiest Smart Alecks from these haughty megalopolises like Washington, New York, etc. Zero

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It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 19 An honest propagandist for any Cause, that is, one who honestly studies and figures out the most effective way of putting over his Message, will learn fairly early that it is not fair to ordinary folk

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It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 20 The real trouble with the Jews is that they are cruel. Anybody with a knowledge of history knows how they tortured poor debtors in secret catacombs, all through the Middle Ages. Whereas the Nordic is

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It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 21 It was not only the November sleet, setting up a forbidding curtain before the mountains, turning the roadways into slipperiness on which a car would swing around and crash into poles, that kept Dorem

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It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 22 December tenth was the birthday of Berzelius Windrip, though in his earlier days as a politician, before he fruitfully realized that lies sometimes get printed and unjustly remembered against you, he

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It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 23 Doremus was nervous. The Minute Men had come, not with Shad but with Emil and a strange battalion-leader from Hanover, to examine the private letters in his study. They were polite enough, but alarmin

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It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 16 I have no desire to be President. I would much rather do my humble best as a supporter of Bishop Prang, Ted Bilbo, Gene Talmadge or any other broad-gauged but peppy Liberal. My only longing is to Serv

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It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 15 Usually I'm pretty mild, in fact many of my friends are kind enough to call it Folksy, when I'm writing or speechifying. My ambition is to live by the side of the road and be a friend to man. But I ho

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It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 14 I joined the Christian, or as some call it, the Campbellite Church as a mere boy, not yet dry behind the ears. But I wished then and I wish now that it were possible for me to belong to the whole glor

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It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 13 And when I get ready to retire I'm going to build me an up-to-date bungalow in some lovely resort, not in Como or any other of the proverbial Grecian isles you may be sure, but in somewheres like Flor

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It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 12 I shall not be content till this country can produce every single thing we need, even coffee, cocoa, and rubber, and so keep all our dollars at home. If we can do this and at the same time work up tou

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It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 11 When I was a kid, one time I had an old-maid teacher that used to tell me, Buzz, you're the thickest-headed dunce in school. But I noticed that she told me this a whole lot oftener than she used to te

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It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 10 While I hate befogging my pages with scientific technicalities and even neologies, I feel constrained to say here that the most elementary perusal of the Economy of Abundance would convince any intell

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It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 9 Those who have never been on the inside in the Councils of State can never realize that with really high-class Statesmen, their chief quality is not political canniness, but a big, rich, overflowing Lo

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EMMA Volume Two by Jane Austen CHAPTER XV Emma was not required, by any subsequent discovery, to retract her ill opinion of Mrs. Elton. Her observation had been pretty correct. Such as Mrs. Elton appeared to her on this second interview, such she app

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EMMA Volume Two by Jane Austen CHAPTER XIV Mrs. Elton was first seen at church: but though devotion might be interrupted, curiosity could not be satisfied by a bride in a pew, and it must be left for the visits in form which were then to be paid, to

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