The indefatigable and well-known feminist pacifist Lucia Ames Mead, a former piano teacher, had gotten her start before World War I with Suttner’s endorsement. She kept the presses rolling long after, insisting that if Americans had banned “man-selling” in law in the nineteenth century, it was going to be the turn of “man-killing” in the twentieth. (She was crushed to death in the Boston subway in 1936, saving her from seeing the short-term routing and long-term consecration of her work to come.)
