Word: babbittism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Judge Gary should come in a close second to Samuel Gompers' first. That would be a good story. It might get on the front page. A poll by the Delineator, Ladies' Home Journal, McCall's, Pictorial Review, et cetera, would follow, giving the election, perhaps, to Mrs. George Follansbee Babbitt...
...Gump's situation is like that of a Mr. George Babbitt, a "realtor," who appeared last year with threats of an action aginst Sinclair Lewis, on the ground that the author had subjected him to " contumely and ridicule...
...Babbitt, Jrs. "The Genius Of America" will, perhaps, be of great value and interest. For others, it deals too much in platitudes. Professor Sherman's logic is that of the Chamber of Commerce mixed in with the bright sweetness of Pollyanna's elder brother. But, according to the publisher "This book is written by one intensely conscious of the situation". "For all its basic seriousness, it makes bright and lively reading...
...History Tricked by Literary Focality? Perhaps George F. Babbitt of Zenith had it coming to him. He was an enormously ignorant, ineffectual, and complacent man. His tribe of hemen, go-getters and parasites upon public cupidity and gullibility deserved to be pilloried by Sinclair Lewis. But his more talented cousins-the big business man, the financier, the military leader, the engineer, the scientist, the inventor -have a more genuine grievance against the world. They have erected the edifice of modern civilization, they are responsible for Progress with a capital P, but fame and immortality go to the artists. Because they...
...emotional assistants to Helen Menken in a thrilling melodrama of Paris. KIKI-Lenore Ulric still turning 'em away at the Belasco Theatre. The story of a little Paris grisette who wasn't half so bad as she painted herself. THE ADDING MACHINE - Expressionistic projection of an humble Babbitt called Mr. Zero. A satirical arraignment of bourgeois justice by Elmer Rice, who has performed the miracle of achieving the Theatre Guild by way of Broadway. You AND I-The Harvard Prize Play, by Philip J. Q. Barry, with the best balanced cast in town. Clever dialogue and shrewd observations...