Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement of the Pulitzer award for the best novel on American life to Sinclair Lewis' "Arrowsmith" follows the Pulitzer award tradition in its attitude toward the American novel...
...which were announced last night are two Harvard men, one of them a professor at the University. These are Professor Edward Channing, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and Harvey W. Cushing, M. D. A number of others whose works received awards were the late Miss Amy Lowell, Sinclair Lewis, and George Kelley...
...Linwood Boulevard Christian Church, he took his watch out of his pocket with a theatrical gesture and laid it on the prayer desk before him. It was an accurate watch, he said. He would give God ten minutes precisely. . . ten minutes to demonstrate that He existed by striking him, Sinclair Lewis, author, dead where he stood. The people in the Linwood Boulevard Christian Church waited patiently. In the Independence Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church a few blocks away, a "golden wedding choir" (men and women who had been married 50 years) was singing "Shall We Gather at the River?" Some...
...York Daily Mirror, with characteristic emphasis, spoke for the gum-chewers. At the top of its editorial page two pictures were printed, one of Sinclair Lewis with a monocle in his eye, and one (on the left) of a large hairy baboon with enormous ears, a wise, sad, underslung mouth, a flat nose. The baboon also wore a monocle...
...right," explained the Daily Mirror, "is Sinclair Lewis...