Word: sinclairism
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...nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. His face was babyish . . . despite his wrinkles and the red spectacle-dents on the slopes of his nose. He was not fat but he was exceedingly well fed. ..." This description was intended by Author Sinclair ("Red") Lewis, who created the character and published the novel Babbitt in 1922, to represent a type of U. S. businessman. A vast reading public immediately accepted George Follansbee Babbitt as the go-getter incarnate. A school of Babbitt literature started, culminating in Booth Tarkington's The Plutocrat. "Babbitts...
Henry Mason Day, jailed with Harry Ford Sinclair for contempt of court after the Teapot Dome oil investigation, was made a partner of Redmond & Co., Wall Street brokers...
...country. I am sending you a picture under separate cover of my dog,† which I have had now for over a year. It is the only Boxer in this state of Rhode Island, and as far as I know, one of the very few in New England. JAMES SINCLAIR Providence, R. I. To Reader Sinclair all thanks for a portrait...
...When Yale's Sinclair Lewis was preparing to write Arrowsmith, novel of doctors and medical researchers (TIME, March 23, 1925), Dr. Paul de Kruif (Microbe Hunters, Hunger Fighters) traveled with him, gave him his scientific information. They decided to make bacteriophage Martin Arrowsmith's research goal. A climax of the story comes when the phage is tried out against an epidemic of bubonic plague. But Yale's Professor d'Herelle was not Arrowsmith's prototype. Born in Montreal (1873), he studied and worked abroad, joined Yale in 1928, speaks with a decided French accent...
...honest portrayal of the typical American business man. Many Americans have read the works of Mr. Lewis and many have laughed with them. A few have felt sorry for Babbitt. Several were a little conscience striken. It is a little disquieting to find that Sweden has gone to Sinclair Lewis to find the soul of America...