Word: sinclair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time, Mrs. Helen Wills Moody was included for the first time, her tennis championships being listed under "recreations." Robert Tyre Jones Jr. of Atlanta, open and amateur golf champion of Britain was left out, as was William Tatem Tilden II. Ernest Hemingway joined the U. S. literary contingent of Sinclair Lewis, Henry Louis Mencken, Theodore Dreiser, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill. Paul Robeson, Negro tenor and actor, not listed in Who's Who in America, is listed in Britain's Who's Who. Charles Augustus Lindbergh's history is recounted as follows: "Enrolled in flying school...
...taxi to Sweden's Royal Palace last week drove Mr. & Mrs. Sinclair Lewis. The Lord High Chamberlain, Baron Rude-beck, and the First Lady in Waiting, Countess Lewenhaupt led them into an antechamber abuzz with guests. After a pause a silver trumpet sounded. Gustaf V, King of Sweden and of the Goths and Wends entered escorting Princess Ingeborg (his brother Carl's wife, the King of Denmark's sister), followed by the rest of the Royal Family. All Ladies of the Court were in black, for Queen Victoria of Sweden (No. 1 patient of best-selling Memoir-Writer Dr. Axel...
...Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Sinclair Lewis for his powerful and vivid art of description and his ability to use wit and humor in the creation of original characters...
...Giants." Even more nervous two days later, Prizeman Lewis paced up & down a hallway in the Stockholm Stock Exchange, jerked out his watch repeatedly, fussed with his tie. But when the moment came for him to face the Stock Exchange hall, packed with the elite of Sweden, Sinclair Lewis of Sauk Center, Minn, conquered himself, spoke straight out and clearly the great speech of his life...
Comment. "Sinclair Lewis," said Stockholm's Nya Dagtigt Allehanda "is a noisy savage." "Lewis," declared Tidningen, "is sincere." "Lewis is no charlatan," said Poet Eric Axel Karlfeldt, secretary of the Swedish Academy...