Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sinclair has obviously achieved fame. He has political enemies, a biographer, and an uncorrupted son. But has he a sense of humor...
...Upton Sinclair, whose book "Oil" was recently suppressed in Boston, came to Boston to be present at the defense hearing. He seems to have three arguments for his defense. The first is his twenty-five year old son who is to be offered as evidence that Mr. Sinclair Senior is not a corrupting influence to all young minds. The second argument purports to be from a forthcoming biography of Mr. Sinclair which alludes to him as a Puritan. The third is that most of the quoted bad passages are really from the "Song of Solomon", and anyway Mr. Sinclair feels...
...indulgently if they read in the June American Mercury that St. Patrick has been claimed as "first real Kiwanian of the Celtic race."* Rotary no longer needs imaginary prestige. It has its own. Such men as Commander Francesco de Pinedo have accepted honorary Rotaryhood. Into the teeth of Novelist Sinclair Lewis' castigations Rotary now can fling George Bernard Shaw's retort: "Any sort of an organization is better than sitting in an office, trying to do the other fellow. . . ." This retort has had the approval of the sophisticated New York World, which said: "The Rotarian is not without his points...
...Government 1 Mr. Bromage, B1, B2, B3, B4 New Lect. Hall Mr. Dealey, D1, D2, D3, D4 Memorial Hall Mr. Gregory, G1, G2, G3 Memorial Hall Mr. Houser, H1, H2, Geol. Lect. Rm. Mr. Padelford, P1, P2 Geol. Lect. Rm. Mr. Hutchluson, R1, R2 New Lect. Hall Mr. Sinclair, S1, S2, S3, S4 New Lect. Hall Mr. Vickers, V1, V2, V3 Sem. Mus. 1 Government 22b Sever 24 Greek G I Sever 30 Greek 8 Sever 30 History 11 Bailey-Ludin Emerson A McClintock-Winthrop Emerson F History 16 Alcock-Reynolds Sever 17 Rowe-Worthington Sever 18 History 35 Sever...
...increased prestige for our country can be reaped for every dollar sown in providing better living and traveling quarters for our President and for his Ambassadors in foreign lands. As matters stand, foreigners visit Washington and then go home to tell their countrymen that our President lives like what Sinclair Lewis calls a "babbitt." I have heard "babbitt" picked up and used in this connection by foreigners several times. Do we want that to continue? HERBERT MILTON MAXWELL...