Word: rotarianism
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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...
...profiteer and the capitalist who stirs college youth to critical expression in these days so much as George F. Babbitt, his rotarian friends and the hosts of the "stodgy" and the commonplace. The Opposition in college today is not composed of the rigid economic dogmatists of yesterday with fixed ideas on the distribution of wealth, labor unions and the revolution, but rather is it made up of the care-free, mentally and morally loose-jointed "flapper" whose twin passions are disrespect and personal nonesty and whose favorite word is "moron." It is all very gay and most earnestly flippant. Evans...
...King was asked to become a member of the Brussels Rotary Club. He accepted, received three rousing Rotarian cheers, was much amused...
...Middletown, Conn., on June 5, another young man will undertake a task of magnitude. On that day, as successor to her late President, William Arnold Shanklin, Wesleyan College will induct the incumbent (1918-25) of the presidency of Knox College (Galesburg, Ill.), Dr. James L. McConaughy, 37, Yale graduate, Rotarian, onetime Professor of English and Education at Dartmouth, Bowdoin, Knox...
...characters, could write a good tale about the department-store business. Draw a composite hero-a Marshall Wannamacy. Have him crash his way up from running errands for a scrimping haberdasher to running the business of his own sterling Emporium. Make Wannamacy-or William Watling- quaint as well as Rotarian, eccentric as well as honest. A terse, explosive talker. When he is old, give him a struggle to keep his winnings, a nervous breakdown in the crisis. That gets sympathy. It will be more easily visualized if you locate the Emporium in London. Your love theme will be Watling...