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Thread #94186   Message #1848312
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
02-Oct-06 - 11:18 AM
Thread Name: Poetry: Edgar A. Guest
Subject: RE: Poetry: Edgar A. Guest
Sinclair Lewis took some wonderful digs at him in his novel Babbitt. I've been rereading it lately, and the type is crystal clear, in this description (I looked for a bit from the dinner party chapter where he is introduced. His name is "Cholmondeley," pronounced "Chumley" and through the novel he's referred to as "Chum Frink."

I picked this up at Bartleby, it's in the public domain (and it is a wonderful novel).

Babbitt




This is a chunk of paragraph 73.

SRS