Word: babbittism
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Naturally Monsignor Seipel, Chancellor of Austria did not trumpet his proposal, last week, like a blatant babbitt. The Chancellor is by nature as silent as a turtle. Quietly he slipped off to Prague, Czechoslovak capital. There, last week, he conferred with Foreign Minister Dr. Eduard Benes, best-posted diplomat in Europe. Dr. Benes is known to favor moving the League war-extinguisher to a city near the inflammable Balkans. Presently close-lipped Chancellor Seipel said...
From the character of Mr. McGraw and from the representative body of men which constitute the jury for the 1927 awards, the significance of the Bok fund in the commercial world may be seen. Even those who delight in the somewhat stale pleasure of Babbitt-baiting cannot deny that economic solidity is necessary to cultural progress and that the high standards by which that solidity is maintained are worthy of perpetuation by competition...
...Grace Mailhouse Burnham, attractive at 37, considered herself capable of being a better-than-average mother. Her husband, a retired distiller associated with the soap firm of B. T. Babbitt in Manhattan, died four years ago leaving her childless. Quietly she selected "a young man of good family and good character with the proper eugenic background'' to be the father of her child. "There was nothing which approached promiscuity" in their relationship, she said. The young man, after performing his function as eugenic husband, quietly stepped out of her life. A fortnight ago at the Lying-in Hospital...
...circle of higher education in considered, the outlook is sinister. Standards conducive to stabilization are all too few, and the average student in most cases has enough intelligence to regret the time, energy, and aspiration he loses in pursuing chimeras ineffectively and in obtaining indefinite results, Perhaps Professor Babbitt, in placing most of the blame upon the professor, is too lenient toward the student. For it is only by mutual cooperation that any definite goal can possibly be attained. If the undergraduate is not willing to free himself to a greater extent from the exacting demands of outside activities...
...audience bombarded with Menckenistic fire and fury and accustomed to tolerate the mental acrobatics of contemporary critics like the famous "Bossy" Gillis. Professor Babbitt's warning might sound archaic and his advice Hellenic. Others might recognize its significance and debate its practicality. However, no one will deny that Professor Babbitt's penetrating mind has grasped the essential weaknesses of contemporary life...