Word: babbittism
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Queen Mary, since it became publicly) known that she smokes (TIME, July 14, Aug. 11), has received a constant stream of protests, not from Her Majesty's own subjects but from women's clubs in the U. S. babbitt belt. The Queen does not smoke "gaspers" (popular brands) but medium priced, tipped, essentially feminine cigarets...
...opened a new wing of its Manhattan building, met (50 academicians) with 18 delegates from foreign academies, announced the election of five new members: Novelist Edith Wharton (second female to be elected, the first having been Poetess Julia Ward Howe, who died in 1910), Poet Robert Frost, Professor Irving Babbitt, Sculptor George Grey Barnard, Biographer James Truslow Adams; taking places left vacant by the deaths of Thomas Hastings, Frank V. van der Stucken, Arthur Twining Hadley, Brander Matthews, George Edward Woodberry. Corresponding members elected were Poet Sir William Watson, Poet Laureate John Masefield...
Badges worn by a smalltown delegation of realtors on their way to their state convention were lettered: WE ZOOM FOR ZENITH. And a banner proclaimed: ZENITH THE ZIP CITY-ZEAL, ZEST AND ZOWIE! Heading the delegation was one George Follansbee Babbitt ". . . 46 years old now, in April, 1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. His face was babyish . . . despite his wrinkles and the red spectacle-dents on the slopes of his nose...
This is the first time that George F. Babbitt has been considered a credit to American civilization. It may be an honor to our national literature. And, perhaps, it is just-the case of a cat looking at a king...
...Original Genius", Professor Babbitt, Sever...