Word: babbittism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Well now, Jim," said George Babbitt; "maybe you hadn't ought to be too hard on old Red Lewis. You don't want to forget he made...
...Main Street one day last week George F. Babbitt, Booster, ran into Honest Jim Blausser, Hustler. Above them (in the words of their creator, Novelist Sinclair Lewis) "the towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist...
...because that poor slob is going to wonder where he was at when old Red Lewis hit town! Do you suppose we could get old Red into Rotary some day?" "Wouldn't be surprised, it's a changing world," said George F. Babbitt wistfully...
Golden Horseshoe. The man whose literary killing was of such inflaming interest to George F. Babbitt and Secretary of the Treasury Fred Vinson was in Man hattan last week. He had breezed in from his newly acquired 15-room Tudor man sion on Duluth's lake front...
...Babbitt in The Show-Off. In the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Craig's Wife he impaled a woman who put her house ahead of her husband; in Behold the Bridegroom he sentenced a girl who was guilty of amorous trifling to lose real love when she finally found...