Word: bartonized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...premiums offered with 18 months subscription to the Review are copies of Bruce Barton's The Man Nobody Knows* and The Book Nobody Knows. The Man is Jesus Christ; the Book is the Bible...
...letter accompanying the circular was the following paragraph: ". . . Barton's two books interest and aid the rich and powerful; they help any cub salesman to get orders for shoe polish?and to work on principles that lead him toward riches and power...
Reminiscing, Mr. Barton said, "I remember when I first started journalistic work, in high school, and after that I began working for one of the city newspapers for $3 a week, and often I didn't get that much...
Although possible less piquant than Mae Murray's views on Companionate Marriage, Bruce Barton's opinions of native geniuses are equally fruitful as material for dinner conversation. With one fell swoop he couples Miss Loos with Mr. Galsworthy; if the second is a genius and Mr. Barton infers that he is, then so is the first...
...extremely likely that neither the creator of the Forsytes nor the originator of Lorelei Lee will qualify as a genius, although, of course, Mr. Barton, as everyone else, is entitled to a belief that they will. Analysis of the word "genius" would determine to a large degree the number and character of those persons qualified to merit it. The writers now living whom the majority would grant the title may be counted on the fingers of one hand. One man alone would probably be a unanimous choice, and that one is Thomas Hardy, an Olympian who lingers on, cloistered...