Word: sinclairism
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...puzzle readers who pay $2.50 to share their experience, is Mr. DeVoto's belligerence. With a chip on his shoulder the size of a two-by-four, with many a dubious assertion insisted on with the finality of the village atheist, and with sideswipes at Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, John Dos Passes, Robinson Jeffers and others whom he oddly lumps together, Mr. DeVoto seems less a critic than a Studs Lonigan of letters, daring anybody to come out and fight like...
...they will likely seek as a running mate a Westerner such as California's Governor Earl Warren. Saltonstall's only avowed candidacy is for the U.S. Senate, for the seat of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., who is off at the war. (Saltonstall's '14 friend, Sinclair Weeks, was handpicked by the Governor to warm Lodge's place until the election in November.) At 51, Leverett Saltonstall's political eyes are not bigger than his stomach. But as a shrewd Yankee, he never discounts the possibility that a platter might be handed...
...Others: Voltaire's Candide, Boccaccio's De cameron, Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, Sinclair Lewis' Elmer Gantry, Upton Sinclair's Oil, Elinor Glyn's Three Weeks...
...Talisman. Five days before Sir Archibald Sinclair, Britain's dapper Secretary of State for Air, told the House of Commons that Allied air power was now nearly at peak strength, and declared that air supremacy, "the talisman that can paralyze German war industry and war transport and clear the road to Berlin," is clearly within reach...
...member interrupted Sinclair's tough talk. When he sat down, members in every corner of the green chamber lustily banged their desks. Flight Lieut. Sinclair had made the most effective speech since the session started...