A square, à la Sinclair Lewis

Usage examples of babbitt.

Between Babbitt, Senior, and Captain Sam Hunniwell, the latter President of the Orham National Bank and also a vigorous politician, the dislike had always been strong.

Phineas Babbitt, on the contrary, had at first upheld the policy of strict neutrality.

And, suddenly, Phineas Babbitt, realizing that his son, Leander, was twenty-five years old and, therefore, within the limits of the draft age, became once more an ardent, if a little more careful, conscientious objector.

Now he IS drafted, and, if I know Phin Babbitt, the old man will be down on us Board fellers the first thing to get the boy exempted.

The frightened youngster scuttled away and Babbitt, the telegram rattling in his shaking hand, followed him.

Why--why--no wonder old Babbitt looked as if the main topsail yard had fell on him.

And some others, like Leander Babbitt or Captain Hunniwell, came to ask his advice on personal matters, although even they patronized him just a little.

And on the day following that upon which Leander Babbitt enrolled to fight for Uncle Sam, Jedidah Edgar Wilfred Winslow was fortyfive years old.

Phineas Babbitt, however, continued to express dislike, or, at the most, indifference.

CHAPTER XV The pity which Jed felt for Phineas Babbitt caused him to keep silent concerning his Thanksgiving evening interview with the hardware dealer.

This speech was made quietly and with all the customary Winslow deliberation and apparent calm, but there was one little slip in it and that slip Babbitt was quick to notice.

Jed had taken one long stride to where Babbitt was standing, seized the furious little creature by the right arm with one hand and with the other covered his open mouth, covered not only the mouth, but a large section of face as well.

A furious mumble from behind the fingers and a venomous flash from the Babbitt eyes were answers sufficient.

Major Grover stepped in front of him and leveled a forefinger straight at the crimson Babbitt nose.

He seemed quite oblivious of the Babbitt stare, or, for that matter, of the complete silence which had so suddenly fallen upon the group in the shop.