Later Temple could hear them outside her door, whimpering and scuffing, or, rushing thickly in when the negro maid opened the door, climbing and sprawling onto the bed and into Miss Reba's lap with wheezy, flatulent sounds, billowing into the rich pneumasis of her breast and tonguing along the metal tankard which she waved in one ringed hand as she talked.

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The period between World War I and World War II (1918 to 1939) can be described as interbelline.

They're always viewed in relation to American suburbanism, possessionism, commodityism, or copism.