Word: upton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Authors Upton Beall Sinclair and Sinclair Lewis are sometimes confused in the casual mind and not only because of their names. As penmen they are stylistic cousins of whom the younger and cleverer-Mr. Lewis-has far surpassed in ability and notoriety his more intellectual and radical elder. Yet when Sinclair Lewis was but a redheaded young yahoo learning at Upton Sinclair's colony, Helicon Hall (Englewood, N. J.), the rudiments of a Socialism which he was later to abandon for a creed 100% egocentric, Upton Sinclair was already a celebrity by inversion, a rebel whose voice of loud...
...literary sensations then went, The Jungle (1905) flaying Chicago's stockyards, The Metropolis (1908) flaying Manhattan and The Brass Check (1919) flaying journalism, were equivalent to the later temblors of Main Street and Babbitt. And it may be to the ian, constitutes himself the scourger of Vulgarity. Upton Sinclair, Marxian pedant, is the novelistnemesis of Capitalism...
...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...
...tennis team beat Milton yesterday 6-1, playing its second match this season. M. I. Hill '30 playing number one beat Green 6-1, 6-2 in a onesided match. H. S. Ingraham '30 in the closest contest of the afternoon just managed to eke out a victory over Upton 7-5, 5-7, 10-8. F. B. Ward '30 easily overcame Wolcott 6-3, 6-1, while S. W. Winslow 3rd 30 beat Beyer 6-2, 6-3, and F. K. Trask Jr., '30 beat Nichols...
...doubles Hill and Trask were unable to get their stride and were beaten by Green and Upton 5-7, 6-2, 6-3, but Ingraham and Ward made up for the dedeat by beating Beyer and Wolcott...