Word: babbitts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point of inanity--is sweet; and life under any regime is short--so why not make merry in one's own uncouth way? The intelligentsia phantom group, will shriek the truth of the Drifter's remarks and will seize upon them as further ammunition against the genus Babbitt. The intelligent will likewise see the justice of his criticisms--only they will not entirely damn the country to everlasting dreariness, but will reserve hope for the future and patience for the present...
...insistently needs tin for bronzes, solders, collapsible tubes, pewter, babbitt and other bearing metals, type and brittania metals, tin foil for wrappings, soda fountain and chemical laboratory pipes, cans and boxes, white enamel, making silks heavy, mordants in dyeing textiles and printing calicoes. For these uses, this country last year imported 50% (76,646 long tons, value $95,121,000) of the total world supply of tin. This was an increase of nearly 20% over 1924 imports, whereas the world supply increased only 2% over that of 1924. On Dec. 31, 1925, there were only 2,654 tons...
...women in the United States pursuing some kind of education after working hours. Heretofore, largely because of the lack of centralized organization, such as exists in England, there have developed all sorts of fake correspondence schools and extension courses which have been fit subject for Mencken and the Babbitt-baters. The new association, under the Presidency of a man like Dean Russell of Teachers College, Columbia, should be able to weed out the shysters and lend a guiding hand to this much abused but potentially excellent development in education...
...rest of the article, at least that which concerns what Mr. Aswell calls the "human", probably meaning the humanistic, is more sound. Here his desire to get nearer the Universal, to see Unity in Multiplicity, though it be a reiteration of Mr. Irving Babbitt's reiterations of a truth so evident as to be too often neglected, is always excellent in the present absence of sanity in journalistic criticism...
Died. George F. Babbitt, 78, Harvard '72, onetime Boston health commissioner and editorial writer for the Boston Herald, at North Scituate, Mass...