Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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". . . The hour is 1 a.m. . . . I hear shouts of 'death to the Americans in the streets. . . . Six hundred or maybe 1,000 strong, the forces of General Augusto Calderon Sandino surround the Americans under Major Gilbert Hatfield and attack from all sides. . . . The fighting becomes general. . . . Our constabulary fight bravely...
While crowds were rioting in Vienna and burning down the Palace of Justice last fortnight, a tall, stooped, cadaverous U. S. traveler with an expression halfway between a hunter and a man hunted, was stationed in Germany. It was Novelist Sinclair Lewis, now slipping off to dine with Berlin babbitts...
Smart Berliners delighted to entertain last week their favorite among living U. S. novelists, Sinclair Lewis. Snooping newsgatherers followed Novelist Lewis to a very small, very select little dinner. Who was the swarthy man with whom he talked so much?
In London last week were two potent U. S. preachers-Bishop William Thomas Manning of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of New York, and Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman, President of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. Each was stopping over in London on his way to Lausanne, Switzerland...
The Prince of Head Waiters (Lewis Stone). The Parisian hero is torn from his newlywed U. S. bride, because her father, of haughty Boston ancestry, cannot tolerate a penniless artist in the family. Twenty years later the embittered man is a head waiter in a superior U. S. eating-place...