In Popular Culture
- 1922 – Writer Vachel Lindsay wrote a poem titled, "The Babbitt Jambouree".
- 1927 – English author C.E.M Joad published The Babbitt Warren, a scathing critique of American society.
- 1946 – George and Ira Gershwin wrote a song titled "The Babbitt and the Bromide", which was featured in the film Zigfeld Follies.
- 1967 Elizabeth Stevenson published a popular history of the 1920s titled Babbitts and Bohemians: From the Great War to the Great Depression.
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