Word: babbittism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this connection we would like to advise that the Liberty vessel, S.S. Jason Lee, launched from the Kaiser Co.'s Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. on June 27, 1942, was christened by Mrs. Walter E. Harris, wife of Walter E. Harris, Negro swing shift porter. . . . HAL BABBITT Publicity Director Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. Portland...
...Amphitryon 38," Mr. Lunt is agile and amusing. He brightens up the stage with his flourishes and his tricks, spinning back and forth, "like a top." Miss Fontanne is demure and lovely as the romantic wife of a prosaic husband. Jack Smart excels as the dull West Indian Babbitt with the tyrannical past of a pirate...
...descriptions of business, of businessmen's pleasures, of the terrible restiveness and staleness which all but broke him before he ultimately broke loose, are among the most extraordinary pages in the book -sketchy, fumbling, yet incomparably more penetrating and more compassionate than, say, the excellent Babbitt. It was only after he walked out on his wife, his children and his business that his life as a writer began. His account of that life is no less moving, but it lacks the great human breadth of the first half of his story...
...Marx's Das Kapital. Also rans: Charles Beard's Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the U.S.; Bergson's Creative Evolution; Frazer's Golden Bough; W. H. Hudson's Far Away and Long Ago; William James's Moral Equivalent of War; Lewis' Babbitt; Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought; Tolstoy's What...
From the outside, Ambassador Davies' *Mission to Moscow; Simon & Schuster; $3. Moscow mission looked like some super Sinclair Lewis saga of a Babbitt among the Bolsheviks. A rich, self-made corporation lawyer from Wisconsin, he ran Woodrow Wilson's Western campaign in 1912, later headed the Federal Trade Commission, in 1913 refused the Ambassadorship to Russia. Accepting the post 23 years later, he took with him his second wife, Mrs. Marjorie Post Close Hutton Davies, who inherited $20,000,000 from her father (Postum), was used to a 54-room triplex Manhattan apartment, owned a massive steam& -square...