Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THE MAN WHO KNEW COOLIDGE, Being the Soul of Lowell Schmaltz, Constructive and Nordic Citizen-Sinclair Lewis-Harcourt Brace ($2).
The Man Located. Lowell Schmaltz takes great pleasure in announcing himself friend to Coolidge, a classmate in fact, though before Christmas of Freshman year he "had to go back home and take up the burden of helping support the family" (in other words, he flunked out). But he did chance...
Significance. Thus in a series of excessively droning monologues Lowell Schmaltz gives himself away to inconceivably long-suffering audiences as a self-satisfied ass thriving in a smug over-convenient America, 1928 model. Lively audiences yawn, groan, escape him, but posterity, trapped by the author's undeniable virtuosity in...
The first monologue of the series appeared originally in magazine form. The story runs that his publishers cabled Author Lewis suggesting that they set it up in slim book form and sell it for a dollar. The cabled answer: "Hold off. I'll send you more of the same...
Bernard Barnes '30, J. E. Barrett '30, M. R. Brownell, Jr. '30, A. L. Devens '30, L. W. Dickey '30, E. C. Dieckerhoff '30, W. R. Harper '30, W. P. Lage '30, G. L. Lewis, Jr. '30, C. S. Petrasch '30, W. W. Ryan '30, H. T. Wenner '30.