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Like Mrs. Nation herself, her first biographers tended to take their subject overseriously, as a moral force whose famous hatchet splintered a national institution that was richly deserving of demolition: the saloon.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a world that takes itself overseriously, Kentucky still knows how to play.

From Why Joan? by Kelly, Eleanor Mercein