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The scorners came in together—Moe Tchatzsky, the syndicalist and direct actionist, and Jane Schott, the writer of impressionistic prose—and they sat silently sneering on a couch.

From Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man by Lewis, Sinclair