“The dinner was the best style of women's-magazine art, whereby the salad was served in hollowed apples, and everything but the invincible fried chicken resembled something else.”

— Sinclair Lewis , book Babbitt

Babbitt (1922), Ch. 8

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American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright 1885–1951

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