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...Mantrap. Sinclair Lewis may refuse the Pulitzer Prize but he does not object to the butchery of his literature in pictures. It is to be supposed that Mr. Lewis contrived his latest story with some care and regards it with some pride. In the movies it comes out as just one more of those dull afternoons. The story tells of a lawyer in a lonely north woods town. He engages in a flirtation with a lovely lady who has once been a manicurist in Minneapolis but is now the wife of one of the best inhabitants of Mantrap. Percy Marmont...
...Upon appointment as Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1921-24) he resigned directorates with Sinclair Oil & Refining Co., J. G. White Mfg. Corp., Broadway Improvement Co., White Motor...
...Babbitt is any person who by his muddled features, raucous costume, attitude or gesture defines himself as inescapably belonging to that type of Native American popularized in the novel of Sinclair Lewis...
...UPTON SINCLAIR...
Learned Subscriber Sinclair to the contrary, TIME understands that the medical profession recognizes no one cause for cancer, that it abhors Mr. Macfadden's technique...