Word: sinclairism
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...Salvation Army protested that TIME'S photograph of Evangeline Booth did not do her credit, and ED. said he would be happy to receive a better one. As usual, cantankerous Upton Sinclair was present-denying that he was, as TIME had said, a Bolshevik. He put TIME to bed with the Ku Klux Klan for seeming to support the candidacy of "the Klan Kandidate Koolidge." ED. allowed that the charge was baseless...
Cass Timberlane, the story of a middle-aging Midwesterner's love for an intermittently erotic bobbysoxer, grossed Novelist Sinclair Lewis well over a quarter-million dollars before publication. Once on the stands, the novel soared into second place on the best-seller list, with 675,000 sales in ten weeks...
...Sinclair Lewis brought glad tidings to the University of South Carolina, where he talked to the students. "America has been a very childish country," he said. "It is now beginning to grow...
...bring French women up to date on what has happened to the rest of the world in the past five years, Mme. Lazareff, in a frantic fortnight in Manhattan, gathered up data on postwar kitchens, Sinclair Lewis' Cass Timberlane (to run serially), news of Sinatra, Van Johnson and other wartime discoveries...
...Sinclair Lewis, whose new Cass Timberlane is a very best seller, took a look around and happily noted a "growth of literary consciousness," countered with the gloomy observation that "the best seller of today has little influence compared with the comic strip...