Word: babbittism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bullish item last week was an extra dividend by National Lead Co., together with profits of $10,000,000 against $6,000,000 in 1928. But in the statement of Lead's president, Edward Joel Cornish, were bearish notes. Sales of babbitt metal, of which this company is the largest manufacturer, dropped 35% in December and 45% in January, compared to a year ago. Since babbitt metal's chief use is in factory wheels, it is evident that the wheels have slowed...
...Plutocrat was originally a novel in which Booth Tarkington rather effectually rebutted Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt by describing the world travels of an Omaha porkpacker who, for all his bluster and gaucherie, was admirable rather than asinine. His virtues were particularly apparent by contrast with those of an epicine playwright whom he encountered on the way. In dramatizing the story, Arthur Goodrich has entirely neglected this central theme, has treated all the characters broadly and achieved a completely banal degree of farce. The performance by Charles Douville Coburn, Ivah Wills Coburn and their supporting cast is, at best, foolish...
Sinclair Lewis, best-selling author (Main Street, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry), petitioned that he be allowed to pay his onetime wife Grace Livingstone Hegger Lewis $200 monthly alimony instead of $1,000, having met with "financial reverses...