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Updated: May 8, 2025

They gossiped with Una about the husbands of the déclassé women men suspected to be itinerant quack doctors, sellers of dubious mining or motor stock, or even crooks and gamblers. There was a group of three or four cheery, buxom, much-bediamonded, much-massaged women, whose occasionally appearing husbands were sleek and overdressed. To Una these women were cordial.

Sinclair Lewis - The Job: An American Novel