Word: mocker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, Charles E. Keck, President of the New York Rotary Club, lifted his voice against author Sinclair Lewis, creator of Babbitt, mocker of business clubmen, lodge brothers, realtors, Maccabees, Elks, Moose, Veiled Phophets etc. Said Rotarian Keck over the radio: "I'm going to take a fall out of Sinclair Lewis. . . He's due for it. If he were a big enough man to tell the story straight, it would be all right. But he fixes up a little city of Zenith, or whatever you call it, and has a little Rotary Club, and tells everybody that a Rotary Club...
...have became a total abstainer. Is not the comparison between your good self and King Solomon irresistable? Aside from the Wisdom of both of you, many a time in his vigorous youth Solomon slaked his thirst with the flowing bowl, but in his old age claimed 'wine is a mocker...