Word: sinclairism
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...partners in Jackson Brothers, Boesel & Co. include William Fletcher Farrell, husky son of John Fletcher Farrell, vice president and treasurer of Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp., and William H. Fleischmann, son of Vice President Paul W. Fleischmann of Standard Brands...
told a group of newshawks: "If I were God I would have come down and cuffed that man [Sinclair] Lewis - he'd never have gone to Stockholm to collect that Nobel award!" Observers suspected that if Evangelist Sunday were God he would have cuffed Author Lewis much more severely on the occasion of his defying the Deity from the pulpit of a church (TIME...
...winning the four major golf championships, Robert Tyre Jones Jr. was easily Sportsman of the Year. The Nobel Prize winners, especially the onetime newshawk Sinclair Lewis who is the first U. S. litterateur to receive the accolade, were Men of the Year. But the work for which they were honored was done in other years...
...time, Mrs. Helen Wills Moody was included for the first time, her tennis championships being listed under "recreations." Robert Tyre Jones Jr. of Atlanta, open and amateur golf champion of Britain was left out, as was William Tatem Tilden II. Ernest Hemingway joined the U. S. literary contingent of Sinclair Lewis, Henry Louis Mencken, Theodore Dreiser, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill. Paul Robeson, Negro tenor and actor, not listed in Who's Who in America, is listed in Britain's Who's Who. Charles Augustus Lindbergh's history is recounted as follows: "Enrolled in flying school...
Comment. "Sinclair Lewis," said Stockholm's Nya Dagtigt Allehanda "is a noisy savage." "Lewis," declared Tidningen, "is sincere." "Lewis is no charlatan," said Poet Eric Axel Karlfeldt, secretary of the Swedish Academy...