Word: babbittism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scalp the tired business man and expose his lack of brains. In Beggar on Horseback they have indulged their suppressed desires by murdering him. Their instrument of vengeance, an impraetical young composer, leaves no doubt of his pique by wiping out the stodgy manufacturer and his entire wealthy, babbitt family...
Meanwhile Mrs. Babbitt pays or stays at home. Usually she pays...
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...
...Babbitt wants to go to the theatre, particularly through those long evenings when Mr. Babbitt is at butter-and-egg meetings. Therefore she scans curiously the advertisements, discovers critical excerpts culled by the press agents designed to prove that every production in town contains superlative entertainment. She gives up and consults the hotel elevator...
This sagacious individual gives her a list of six or eight shows. Thus armed, Mrs. Babbitt, thrifty soul, attacks the box offices. She discovers that not a single theatre on the list has any seats within hailing distance of the stage. Properly indignant, she protests and is informed that a few seats may possibly be obtained at the agencies. She waddles petulantly around Times Square, discovers finally that good seats for the greatest hits cannot be had for less than $7 apiece. The leading musical shows range between...