Word: babbittism
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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...
...Permit me to extend a cordial invitation to Babbitt to visit the Paris Exposition in 1937," said the French General Commissioner of the exposition. Edmond Labbe, speaking at the American Club in Paris. "I know he would appreciate our exposition of art and technique. It will be an exposition made for Babbitt and his kind in other nations, be they called Durand and du Pont, Smith and Jones, or Ivanov and Levy...
...really means to fill the Harvard faculty with men who devote their lives to the adverb in Tacitus or to the importation of bananas into Brittany during the sixteenth century, and none that it wishes to get rid of teachers who might follow in the footsteps of James, Norton, Babbitt, and their peers...