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...Babbitt will bear...
George H. Babbitt, butter-and-egg man of Tiffin, Ohio, and cousin to the prominent realtor about whom Mr. Sinclair Lewis wrote a book, comes to Manhattan for the Fodder Products Convention. With him comes Mrs. Babbitt and all the little Babbitts...
...MIDLANDER-Booth Tarkington -Doubleday ($2.00). Mr. Tarkington has written the booster's epic. Dan Oliphant is the apostle of hustle. He is a gorgeous, epochal Babbitt. Unfortunately, he imports his wife from the East-a pretty, self-willed little product of civilization who hates the West fully as much as the West hates her. The book proceeds through pages of mutual irritation and tantrums, until, between the wife and the son who is like her, Dan is brought to an early grave just as the town, justifying his faith in its power of growth, vindicates his years of fierce...
...POTTERS-Staccato commentary on the kind of man George F. Babbitt might have been had he never made any money...
According to the New York World, however, there must exist a great multitude of Babbitts, for it says editorially that all who attended the great beauty contest last week at Madison Square Garden were such. Even the master mind of the carnival was a Babbitt, a manufacturer of plastic mud for the complexion. And it goes without saying that Mr. Valentino, who bestowed the golden apple upon the fairest, was under his role of Paris only a Babbitt. What the World failed to note was that the sun did not rise out of the west, nor the moon revolve...