“Reverend Lucius Fairlow… a mild-spoken young-old man with mild chestnut hair and a mild chestnut mustache and a conservative theology which stuck mildly to the pleasant certainties of God's anger and eternal hellfire.”

—  Sinclair Lewis

The God-Seeker (1949), Ch. 2

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American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright 1885–1951

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