Word: babbittism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Replaces Babbitt...
...also learned yesterday that the appointment of Philippe J. F. Baldensperger Wednesday as professor of Modern Comparative Literature is largely designed to fill the gap left by the late Irving Babbitt '89, whose death removed Harvard's chief figure in the field of French literature...
Currently exhibited in the U. S. and recommended by most critics are: The Private Life of Don Juan, The President Vanishes, Babbitt, Babes in Toyland, Broadway Bill, Flirtation Walk, The Battle, The Merry Widow, Man of Aran, Our Daily Bread...
While another cinema version of Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt was opening throughout the land last week, U. S. businessmen were putting on a great show of their own in Manhattan. Claiming to represent 70,000 manufacturers throughout the land, they met, cocktailed, dined and elucidated their tenets of sound economics. Im-pressed by the resounding title of Congress of American Industry, metropolitan editors sent newshawks scurrying to the Waldorf-Astoria to record economic history in the making. When columns and columns of the news reports were printed one editor found enough meat in them to pad out a 120-word editorial...
...incomplete list of the patronesses includes Mrs. G. R. Agassia Mrs Irving Babbitt. Mrs. Roger Bigelow, Mrs Edward Bujrlingame, Mrs. George R.s Edgell Miss Jeane Edwards, Mrs. George Feete, Mrs. J. D. M. Ferd. Mrs Joseph Mercter, Mrs. Andre Morise Mrs. T. N. Perkins. Mrs. J. M. Petter, Mrs E. K. Rand, Mrs, Paul Sachs Mrs. C. R. C. Wright...