IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE. Title: It Can't Happen Here (1. Author: Sinclair Lewis. A Project Gutenberg of Australia e. Book *. e. Book No.: 0. Language: English. Character set encoding: HTML (Latin- 1(ISO- 8. Date first posted: July 2. Date most recently updated: July 2. This e. Book was produced by: Don Lainson dlainson@sympatico. Project Gutenberg of Australia e. Books are created from printed editions. Australia, unless a copyright notice. We do NOT keep any e. Books in compliance with a particular. Be sure to check the. You may copy it, give it away or re- use it under the terms. Project Gutenberg of Australia License which may be viewed online at. To contact Project Gutenberg of Australia go to http: //gutenberg. IT CAN'T HAPPEN HEREA Novelby. SINCLAIR LEWIS1. 93. The handsome dining room of the Hotel Wessex, with its gilded. List of sites offering typewriter fonts. Visit Freixenet Winery, on one of CellarTours Luxury Wine Vacations in Spain, enjoy fine food and wine. With over 1,400 of Delia's recipes available to browse, here we have put them in categories so you can easily find what you are looking for. There are 22768 entries in the list. This list was started after I noticed my first MPAA certificate number, which was in the ending credits of the movie Tron. Honored as one of the '8 Wonders of Kansas Architecture' by the Kansas Sampler Foundation. The Incomparable Historic Lebold Mansion!The stately Italianate mansion. Soup Food historians tell us the history of soup is probably as old as the history of cooking. The act of combining various ingredients in a large pot to create a. Green Mountains, had. Ladies' Night Dinner of the Fort Beulah. Rotary Club. Here in Vermont the affair was not so picturesque as it might. Western prairies. Oh, it had its points: there. Medary Cole (grist mill & feed store) and. Louis Rotenstern (custom tailoring- -pressing & cleaning). Vermonters, Brigham Young. Joseph Smith, and with their jokes about imaginary plural. All of America was. It. was just long enough after the Great War of 1. Adelaide Tarr Gimmitch- -she who was no more renowned for her. Great War, kept the American soldiers. French caf. Gimmitch thought very highly of Queen Mary. Flag, the. Constitution, the Bible, and all other peculiarly American. The Annual Ladies' Dinner was a most respectable. Fort Beulah. Most of the ladies and more. Room 2. 89 of the hotel. The tables, arranged on. Mickey Mouse, brass Rotary wheels, and small silk American. On the wall was a banner. General Edgeways was. Our highest ambition. Our only gen- uine relationship to. Europe is in our arduous task of having to try and educate the. Europe has wished onto us up to. American culture and good manners. Pray God it may. never be necessary, but if foreign nations don't sharply heed our. United States, so arduously cultivated and defended. Staubmeyer- -all save a couple of crank pacifist women. Doremus Jessup, editor of the Fort Beulah Daily. Informer, locally considered . She wanted to send to every soldier at the Front a. Think what it would have meant to them in the. A. dear little canary! And who knows- -maybe you could train 'em to. Seething with the notion, she got herself clear into the. Quartermaster General, but that stuffy. It is said. that her eyes flashed real fire, and that she faced the. Jack- in- office like Joan of Arc with eyeglasses while she . They were. encouraged to send their menfolks, or anybody else's menfolks. Gimmitch addressed every soldier she met- -and. Personally, I'd rather have a few more. It was as recently as 1. Prohibition. She had also (since the vote had been forced. Republican Committee- woman in 1. President Hoover daily a lengthy telegram of advice. And, though herself unfortunately childless, she was esteemed. Child Culture, and she was the. All of the Roundies are resting in rows,With roundy- roundies around their toes. But always, 1. 91. Daughters of the American Revolution. The D. A. R. It is composed of females who spend one half their. A look at French dictionaries, which reveal much about the French language. American colonists of 1. The D. A. R. And there is this to be said: it has provided hearty and. Onion Food Quotes “There were ruddy, brown-faced, broad-girthed Spanish Onions, shining in the fatness of their growth like Spanish Friars.” Charles Dickens, 'A. Kuklux Klan, without. K. K. K., high dunces' caps and. So, whether Mrs. Adelaide Tarr Gimmitch was called in to. Lithuanian choral. Her luxuriant gray. Doremus Jessup) could be seen below her youthful, floppy Leghorn. She was full of friendliness toward. If the. United States had only listened to her back in 1. In. fact, Woman must resume her place in the Home and: . Arthur Brisbane, has pointed out, what. But on. a public platform her voice became brassy, her eyes filled with. She was the village scold, the village crank. Now, at. this moment when everything should have been all Service and. Sunshine, Mrs. Lorinda Pike cracked the spell by jeering: ! But what if a poor gal can't hook. Have her six kids out of wedlock? Gimmitch into noble. She did not cuddle at them now. Here's a hundred and twenty. All these corrupt and. Thinking only of how. Peace is a great. I'm not so. sure- -now this will shock you, but I want you to listen to one. I'm not sure but that we need to be. Discipline! We don't want. That's. good enough in its way, but isn't it, after all, just a nice toy. No, what we all of us must have, if this great land. Congress of Nations, is Discipline- -Will Power- -Character!! With your great experience, don't you honest. Come on, now, tell your real middle. Mong General! The crowd bellowed. But he had the military snort and a virile. A state of so- called peace, in which. Red Russia! A state in which college. Constitution! A state in which, as a result of being fed with. People are flabby, cowardly, grasping. No, such a state. About the United. States only wanting peace, and freedom from all foreign. What I'd really like us to do would be to come. Now you boys never mind about the. We have power, and power is its own. We've got strength and will. Nobody in God's world. This gospel of clean and. Why today, in 1. 93. Nazis, and where once it was forced upon them by the authorities. And all the really thinking. But now, when the shameless. Communism try to hold pacifist. January. first, no less than seventy- six such exhibitionistic orgies have. Red students have received their just deserts by being. That, my. friends, is NEWS! Lorinda Pike, leaped up and again. Edgeways, if you think you can get away with. Francis Tasbrough, the quarry owner, the. Fort Beulah, stood grandly up. Lorinda with an outstretched arm, and rumbled in his. Jerusalem- the- Golden basso, ! All. of us here locally have got used to your political principles. Gimmitch have been invited by the club. Rotarian but merely here as the guest of. Reverend Falck, than whom there is no one whom we more honor. Francis Tasbrough (it rhymed with . He was on the. school board, the library board, and he introduced people like. Oswald Garrison Villard, Norman Thomas, and Admiral Byrd when. Jessup was a littlish man, skinny, smiling, well tanned, with. Civil War veteran, or a Seventh Day Adventist. Anyway, he skipped up now and murmured. So, Lorinda, I think. General, to whom we should be. Come on now, my friend- -jump up and make. Yes- -no- -he must be wrong, for Mrs. I do. apologize, General! Thank you for your revelatory speech!! We old campaigners. Glad when anybody's enough interested. The program wound. Louis Rotenstern's singing of a group of patriotic. Louis was a jingo. He explained, and rather often, that it was. Prussian. Poland, but his grandfather (whose name, Doremus suspected, had. Nordic than Rotenstern). Louis's. pocket heroes were Calvin Coolidge, Leonard Wood, Dwight L. He was on every. occasion heard to say, . Adelaide Tarr. Gimmitch, with her celebrated train- caller's contralto. The dinner broke up in cataract- like sounds of happy adieux. Doremus Jessup muttered to his goodwife Emma, a solid. Kathleen Norris: . I am fond of. Lorinda Pike, but why does she have to show off and parade. Socialist ideas? But he broke it off to let. Fort Beulah, Vermont. Legally a city, Fort Beulah was a comfortable village of old. There was but little manufacturing: a small woolen. The granite which. Fort. Beulah itself were only the offices . It was a town of. There was but one (comparative) skyscraper in town: the. Tasbrough Building, with the offices of the Tasbrough. Scarlett Granite Quarries; the offices of Doremus's. Fowler Greenhill, M. D., and his partner, old Dr. Doremus's house was a mile from the business- center of Fort. Beulah, on Pleasant Hill, which was a spur thrust like a reaching. Mount Terror. Upland. Ethan Creek flowing through the. Deep woods- -rearing mountain bulwarks- -the air like. War. of 1. 81. 2 and the boyhoods of those errant Vermonters, Stephen A. Did what they wanted to and thought what. The youngsters. today- -Oh, the aviators have plenty of nerve. The physicists. these twenty- five- year- old Ph. D.'s that violate the inviolable. But most of the wishy- washy young people. Going seventy miles an hour but not going anywhere- -not. Getting their. music by turning a dial. Getting their phrases from the comic. Shakespeare and the Bible and Veblen and. Old Bill Sumner. Like this smug pup Malcolm. Tasbrough, hanging around Sissy! They can. keep their Cotswolds and Harz Mountains and Rockies! Francis Tasbrough was the president, general manager, and. Tasbrough & Scarlett Granite Quarries, at. West Beulah, four miles from . He lived in a new Georgian. Pleasant Hill, a little beyond Doremus Jessup's. Grosse Point. It. New England than was the Catholic. Boston; and Frank himself boasted that, though his family. New England, he was no tight. Yankee but in his Efficiency, his Salesmanship, the complete. Pan- American Business Executive. He was a tall man, Tasbrough, with a yellow mustache and a. He was fifty- four, six years younger. Doremus Jessup, and when he had been four, Doremus had. Assembled in his private barroom tonight, after the Rotarian. Dinner, were Frank himself, Doremus Jessup, Medary Cole, the. Superintendent of Schools Emil Staubmeyer, R. Falck, his old hands as delicate. Good Life. Falck came from a. Knickerbocker family, and he had studied in Edinburgh and. Oxford along with the General Theological Seminary of New York. Beulah Valley there was, aside from Doremus, no. The barroom had been professionally interior- decorated by a. New York gentleman with the habit of standing with the back. It had a stainless- steel bar. La Vie Parisienne, silvered. All of them except Tasbrough, Medary Cole (a social climber to. Frank Tasbrough were as honey and fresh. Old cornered catamount. But. probably not at the whisky!? All these years you've had a lot of fun. Liberal that you'll stand for all. Time for you to quit playing tag with. These are serious. I can understand how, as a younger. Jews- -though, as you know, I'll never get over being. Karl Pascal, who started the whole strike- -maybe I. Yessir, a mighty. Yes, I agree it's a serious time. A Classic Downtown Portland Restaurant & Bar.
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