![]() Such is our comfortable tradition and sure faith. Although Sinclair Lewis was one of the most famous American writers of the 1920s, today his popular, mildly satirical (poking fun at human folly). ![]() In the sensitive art of the Rosebud Movie Palace there is a Message, and humor strictly moral. ![]() Sam Clark's annual hardware turnover is the envy of the four counties which constitute God's Country. Our railway station is the final aspiration of architecture. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea whatsoever Ezra does not know and sanction, that thing is heresy, worthless for knowing and wicked to consider. That this Ford car might stand in front of the Bon Ton Store, Hannibal invaded Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters. Main Street is the climax of civilization. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills. Paul stockyards, 'These college chumps make me tired. ![]() The town is, in our tale, called "Gopher Prairie, Minnesota." But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. A classmate named Stewart Snyder, a competent bulky young man in a gray flannel shirt, a rusty black bow tie, and the greenandpurple class cap, grumbled to her as they walked behind the others in the muck of the South St. This is America-a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. ![]()
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