America Moved

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Booth Tarkington. America Moved

America Moved

Editor’s Introduction

Acknowledgments

I. Vain Child

II. Beaten Boy

III. Snips and Snails and Puppy Dogs’ Tails

IV. Trousers Transition

V. Where Do We Go from Here?

VI. Turning Out to Be an Idiot

VII. The End of Those Days

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Booth Tarkington’s Memoirs of Time and Place, 1869–1928

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Expecting to delight the world, I tried for the credit and got it. More uproar, confusion, and fury can seldom have been so simply created; and it was I who had the real surprise. When Mrs. Townley stopped screaming her opinion of me, she ran from the house, dragging her daughter with her, nevermore to return; the dancing class dispersed, and I was placed in a sequestration lasting longer than pussy’s. Released from this first actual punishment, I had it made clear to me, verbally, that even my father couldn’t look upon me as a funny dog. Neither he nor my mother could bear to think of the reputation I’d made for myself.

They were right. For the following fifteen years Mrs. Townley never mentioned me, or heard anyone speak of me, without supplying her unvaried synonym for me; and reiteration so sincere carries weight. I had many an acquaintance who at times became temporarily known as the Worst Boy in Town; but they were only runners-up. I held the title longest.

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