All 3 Uses of
bountiful
in
Main Street
- She felt that these independent citizens, who had been taught that they belonged to a democracy, would resent her trying to play Lady Bountiful.†
Chpt 10 *
- The conception of millions of workmen like Miles taking control frightened her, and she scuttled rapidly away from the thought of a time when she might no longer retain the position of Lady Bountiful to the Bjornstams and Beas and Oscarinas whom she loved—and patronized.†
Chpt 23
- …fillet of sole, drenched cigar-ashes gradually filling the saucers of coffee cups, and oratorical references to Pep, Punch, Go, Vigor, Enterprise, Red Blood, He-Men, Fair Women, God's Country, James J. Hill, the Blue Sky, the Green Fields, the Bountiful Harvest, Increasing Population, Fair Return on Investments, Alien Agitators Who Threaten the Security of Our Institutions, the Hearthstone the Foundation of the State, Senator Knute Nelson, One Hundred Per Cent. Americanism, and…†
Chpt 35
Definition:
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(bountiful) given in abundance (a large amount); or an abundant (large) amount