Word: babbittism
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Elected. Henry Louis Mencken, babbitt-baiting editor of the American Mercury: to honorary membership in the Kiwanis Club of Montgomery, Ala., hometown of Miss Sara Haardt whom he last fortnight engaged to marry...
...LOVE-Paul Geraldy-Button ($1). A realistic Frenchman, Author Géraldy here lectures on what most Anglo-Saxons would call profane love. But he titillates no libidinous itch in this little monograph of precepts. Here is a plenty of theory but no rules of thumb. Many a bewildered Babbitt might profit by one or another of these Gallic apothegms. For example: "I love you" should never sound like a call for help. . . . And don't bother to tell me that you insist on being loved for what you are. You are worth more than that." No Columbus, Author...
This book is the first concerted sortie into American life by champions of a movement already profoundly changing our intellectual atmosphere. The leaders of this movement are Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More, and a rapidly growing number is joining them in what is at once the most inspiring criticism of our times yet made...
...bullish item last week was an extra dividend by National Lead Co., together with profits of $10,000,000 against $6,000,000 in 1928. But in the statement of Lead's president, Edward Joel Cornish, were bearish notes. Sales of babbitt metal, of which this company is the largest manufacturer, dropped 35% in December and 45% in January, compared to a year ago. Since babbitt metal's chief use is in factory wheels, it is evident that the wheels have slowed...
...Plutocrat was originally a novel in which Booth Tarkington rather effectually rebutted Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt by describing the world travels of an Omaha porkpacker who, for all his bluster and gaucherie, was admirable rather than asinine. His virtues were particularly apparent by contrast with those of an epicine playwright whom he encountered on the way. In dramatizing the story, Arthur Goodrich has entirely neglected this central theme, has treated all the characters broadly and achieved a completely banal degree of farce. The performance by Charles Douville Coburn, Ivah Wills Coburn and their supporting cast is, at best, foolish...