They had this feeling that they couldn’t understand how people could come across as being the nicest people and still be able to so unjust to others.
President Harding's "return to normalcy" meant getting the United States back to conservative principles after World War I.
Harding's 1920 presidential campaign said that America needed "not heroics, but healing ... not revolution, but restoration ... not the dramatic, but the dispassionate." Those are a few samples among several contrasts like that which he drew. Another was that we needed "not nostrums, but normalcy." A "nostrum" is a cure or medicine that someone promises will work but doesn't actually work. The term is used also for political schemes and promises for bringing about social reform or political progress -- and Harding didn't much believe in such schemes.
I, II, and IV. Guilds were pretty much were a bunch of people of the same job got together and made their stuff better. the invention of money gave people a more accessible form of fund and the expansion of trade allowed travelers to go anywhere to buy what they need