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...description was intended by Author Sinclair ("Red") Lewis, who created the character and published the novel Babbitt in 1922, to represent a type of U. S. businessman. A vast reading public immediately accepted George Follansbee Babbitt as the go-getter incarnate. A school of Babbitt literature started, culminating in Booth Tarkington's The Plutocrat. "Babbitts," "Babbittry," "Babbittism'; became epithets applicable to all those who, like the prototype, were ever zooming for the Home Town, a Big-Business Administration, private real estate developments, the Rotary club or God. Last week Realtor Babbitt zoomed Author Lewis himself into an unanticipated...
...Starhemberg and his Heimwehr would attempt a revolution. Apparently they made no real effort to win at the polls. In the arrogant words of the Prince himself: "We are indifferent to the people's mandate. We intend to rule Austria from outside the walls of Parliament ?that jabbering-booth...
...first time in his college career as a varsity back, in spite of the tumbling Army gave him a week before, Albie Booth played every minute of a game. Once he danced around end and over the Dartmouth goal line, but the touchdown was called back on penalty. He threw away another score by trying a pass on the 17-yard line, fourth down, two yards to go. The rest of the afternoon was a bucking match in which two able lines proved their ability to stop two able back-fields. Dartmouth 0, Yale...
...drab after the William and Mary tie. If Harvard can repeat its aerial game of last Saturday in the Yale Bowl, the now confident Bulldog will have a good deal to worry about. At any rate the game should be a repetition of last year's tilt in that Booth's running will be pitted against the Harvard passes...
...Albie Booth, who personally beat the Army last year, was the only player who had a 'chance of doing any open field running in the rain and mud at New Haven last week. As soon as he got in the game he intercepted a pass, but Army tacklers roughed him so thoroughly that he left immediately on a stretcher. The rest of the game was a dull pushing contest between two good lines, with the Army line better but not good enough to do the trick. Yale 7, Army...