Novel · Dystopian fictionHe loved the People just as much as he feared and detested Persons.Sinclair LewisIt Can't Happen Here · 1935★ 3.7
Novel · Dystopian fictionIt isn't what you earn but how you spend it that fixes your class.Sinclair LewisIt Can't Happen Here · 1935★ 3.7
Novel · Dystopian fictionEvery man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.Sinclair LewisIt Can't Happen Here · 1935★ 3.7
NovelJealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.Elizabeth BowenThe House in Paris · 1935★ 3.6
Song · Opera · Great American songbookIt ain't necessarily so- The things that you're liable To read in the Bible- It ain't necessarily so.Ira Gershwin1935★ 3.6
PoemThe sky is darkening like a stain; Something is going to fall like rain, And it won't be flowers.W.H. Auden1935★ 3.6
Song · Great American songbookIt was great fun, But it was just one of those things.Cole PorterJust One of Those Things · 1935★ 3.5
Historically our own culture has relied for the creation of rich and contrasting values upon many artificial distinctions, the most striking of which is sex...If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.Margaret Mead1935★ 3.5
Novel · Dystopian fictionWhy are you so afraid of the word ‘Fascism,’ Doremus? Just a word-just a word! And might not be so bad, with all the lazy bums we got panhandling relief nowadays, and living on my income tax and yours-not so worse to have a real Strong Man, like Hitler or Mussolini-like Napoleon or Bismarck in the good old days-and have ‘em really run the country and make it efficient and prosperous again. ‘Nother words, have a doctor who won’t take any back-chat, but really boss the patient and make him get well whether he likes it or not!Sinclair LewisIt Can't Happen Here · 1935★ 3.5
Autobiography and memoirIt is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.Upton Sinclair1935★ 3.5
Film · Adventure (film) · AdventureWe have ways to make men talk.Mohammed KhanThe Lives of a Bengal Lancer · 1935★ 3.5
Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writingIt was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that, in the long run, prosperity and salvation are in union, and not division.Benjamin CardozoBaldwin v. G. A. F. Seelig · 1935★ 3.5
Song · Great American songbookSummer time and the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich and yo' ma' is good-lookin', So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.Ira GershwinSummertime · 1935★ 3.5
Song · Great American songbookHeaven,-I'm in heaven-And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak And I seem to find the happiness I seek When we're out together dancing, cheek to cheek.Irving BerlinCheek to Cheek · 1935★ 3.5
Political literatureIt is for us... To inquire constantly and persistently, when theories of national power or states' rights are propounded: "What interests are behind them and to whose advantage will changes or the maintenance of old forms accrue?" By refusing to do this we become victims of history-clay in the hands of its makers.Charles A. BeardAn Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States · 1935★ 3.4
Poemit wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have it used up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on itDon Marquis1935★ 3.4
Historical literatureMen wiser and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. These harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave.H.A.L. Fisher1935★ 3.4
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