Word: arrowsmith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Less important than Babbitt or Arrowsmith, kinder and more accurate than Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth is as shrewd a piece of reporting as any of the earlier volumes. No scoop, it has a pale prelude in Tarkington's Plutocrat, but Dodsworth is the exhaustive definitive edition...
Died. Benjamin Arrowsmith Hegeman, 68, Manhattan railroad magnate, manufacturer (railway appliances, varnish), onetime president of the American Railway Association; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Elmer Gantry'", he said in reply to a question, which the mention of Babbitt naturally brought up, "is not so good a work, to my mind, as Lewis' 'Arrowsmith'. I like his 'Arrowsmith' the best of all his works. I think, though 'Babbitt' necessarily forces itself into any consideration of the novels of Sinclair Lewis...
...mewing, driveling, snouting creatures-of fiction- which, like an infuriated swineherd, he can beat, goad, tweak, tail-twist, eye-jab, belly-thwack, spatter with sty-filth and consign to perdition. The new collection closely resembles the herd obtained on the Castigator's last foray, against the medical profession (Arrowsmith, 1925) and a parallel course is run, from up-creek tabernacles, through a hayseed college and seminary to a big-city edifice with a revolving electric cross. But the Arrowsmith plot is altered. This time the Castigator, instead of exerting his greatest efforts in harrying a fine-mettled creature...
...have got an extra, but the man whose solemn, blunt features appeared under the slug had certainly derived as much attention as he could expect from a purely intellectual issue. It was, of course, Sinclair Lewis; he had refused the Pulitzer Prize of $1,000 awarded to him for Arrowsmith...