Word: sinclairism
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Truly great social satire produced by strong imaginative vigor are the chief traits which will make Sinclair Lewis work live as long as American literature is read anywhere three professors of English agreed last night...
Besides Clark, Whitney, Floyd, and Peabody, the Overseers' old committee on athletic sports included W. Barry Wood, Jr. '22, Alexander H. Bright '19, Victor O. Jones '23, Arnold Horween '21, Sinclair Weeks '14, and 12 others. It is not yet known whether any or these members, besides Whitney, will be retained in the new group
...Upton Sinclair showed that he was capable of a change of pace. Sticking to his promise to ditch his ubiquitous, ten-novel hero, Lanny Budd, he wrote Another Pamela; or, Virtue Still Rewarded, a sly gibe at rich, talky parlor liberals seen through the wide eyes of an ingenuous housemaid. His literary model: 18th Century Novelist Samuel Richardson's famed Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded...
...enthusiastically. He told how as a patrolman he and his buddies had shaken down nightclubs and gin mills for allowing them to stay open after hours. Now & then, he sprinkled in a big name or two. At one point he recalled hearing that a wealthy oilman named Sinclair (presumably Harry Sinclair of Teapot Dome notoriety) had lost $800,000 in two nights at the Golden Shores gambling club, and had later settled the debt...
Meanwhile at Tech, Roy Merrit--in his first year as varsity coach--finds himself with a fairly inexperienced team. Top men besides Callahan are Sinclair Buckstaff and Bart Conant. In their first test of the season, the M.I.T. wrestlers lost to Springfield, 18 t 16, in the final match...