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  • They looked down on Willis Woodford the bank-clerk, and his anxious babycentric wife, the silent Lyman

    Main Street 2004

  • They looked down on Willis Woodford the bank-clerk, and his anxious babycentric wife, the silent Lyman Casses, the slangy traveling man, and the rest of Mrs. Gurrey's unenlightened guests.

    Main Street 1920

  • They looked down on Willis Woodford the bank-clerk, and his anxious babycentric wife, the silent Lyman Casses, the slangy traveling man, and the rest of Mrs. Gurrey's unenlightened guests.

    Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

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  • They looked down on Willis Woodford the bank-clerk, and his anxious babycentric wife, the silent Lyman Casses, the slangy traveling man, and the rest of Mrs. Gurrey's unenlightened guests.

    --Sinclair Lewis, 1920, Main Street

    March 7, 2009