Word: babbittism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hugh Bancroft, Mrs. Richard M. Saltonstall, Mrs. William Dana Orcutt, Mrs. Charles T. Collens, Mrs. Steven W. Sleeper, Mrs. Guy Currier, Mrs. George L. Paine, Mrs. Charles Peabody, Mrs. Otis Weld Richardson, Mrs. Horace Morison, Mrs. C. Nichols Greene, Mrs. Carl P. Dennett, Mrs. William C. Cox, Mrs. Irving Babbitt, Mrs. Bliss Perry, and Mrs. Edward Ingraham...
During the War many a company declared "Red Cross Dividends." Last week National Lead Co. (Dutch Boy white lead, Babbitt metal, paint products) surprised stockholders with an extra dividend of 25? a share. "The directors feel," explained President Edward Joel Cornish, "that they have no right to give away the funds of the company . . . towards relief of unemployed. ... By declaring an extra dividend we give the money directly to the stockholders with the request, however, that they in turn pass it along. There is no obligation to do so and if the stockholders themselves need the money it is theirs...
...Radcliffe, will be given the preference. On Wednesday, the public will be admitted if there are any vacant seats after ticket-holders have been seated. There will be no admission charges as expenses are being borne by the patronesses. The Cambridge and Boston sponsors are headed by Mrs. Irving Babbitt, Mrs. J. D. M. Ford, Mrs. J. J. Haffner, and Mrs. E. X. Rand...
There should be at least one Babbitt course in every Harvard man's curriculum if only because he is Harvard's most honouredd prophet in every country but his own. This particular one carries on the good only family fond; Babbitt, I., vs. Rousseau et al. You'll enjoy Les Confessions (the English editions are expurgated) along with an apple and a fire on a few could autumn evenings; and when spring rolls around there's La Neuvelle Heloise to be read aloud on the shores of Walden Pond. You'll learn all about conchiliomania (a disease...
LIVING PHILOSOPHIES-Albert Einstein, Theodore Dreiser, Hu Shih, John Dewey, H. L. Mencken, Irving Babbitt, H. G. Wells, Julia Peterkin, George Jean Nathan, Robert Andrews Millikan,Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Arthur Keith, James Truslow Adams, Irwin Edman, Joseph Wrood Krutch, Bertrand Russell, Bronislaw Malinowski, Beatrice Webb, Lewis Mumford, Sir James Jeans, J. B. S. Haldane, Hilaire Belloc- Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Not that it will help people to live a beautiful and true life but because it is always interesting to hear famed men praise or blame the eternal verities, this collection of credos is offered for serious summer reading. Perhaps from...