Word: sinclairism
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...MANTRAP?Sinclair Lewis?Harcourt, Brace ($2). For the moment laying aside the loaded knouts with which he has scourged Main Street, Babbitt and the medical profession, Castigator Lewis now swings a cutting quirt upon upholders of "the most blatant of all American myths," namely, Roughing It Like a He-Man in the North Woods. The chief culprit is round, thick, heartily self-satisfied E. Wesson Woodbury, village fatboy grown up to hosiery sales-manager, who backslaps his tired little lawyer-friend Ralph Prescott into taking a canoe trip to Mantrap Landing, upper Canada, and then bully-rags...
...ills. Such a study first reveals son, Eugena O'Neil, and H. L. Mencken When recovered from these flery charges of hypocrisy, the investigator plunges into a drab slough of respectability in which six-cylindered sedans protect bourgeosie from the necessity of thought. In this literary domain, preempted by Sinclair Lewis, murky morals and stupid minds promenade in clean linen...
Passed without discussion or a record vote a bill to prohibit any extraordinary appeals in the trials of Albert B. Fall, Harry Sinclair, E. L. Doheny for conspiracy to defraud the Government. (Bill went to the House...
Like Mr. Sinclair Lewis (TIME, May 17, THE PRESS), Herr Hauptmann issued a statement explaining why he deemed himself bound as an artist to decline an honor of this type: "I do not believe conscious leadership is possible in literature. Writers who are thus officially recognized by the state would form a group to which free writers would rightly object...
...women failing to graduate in the top tenth of their classes (the P. B. K. qualification) should not, however, despair of attaining post-graduate eminence. Let them consider the following college graduates who are not Keymen: Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Randolph Hearst, J. Pierpont Morgan, Clarence Dillon, Sinclair Lewis, John Hays Hammond Jr., Arthur Curtiss James, William Allen White, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Albert C. Ritchie, Gifford Pinchot, Robert LaFollette,- Edwin Arlington Robinson...