Word: ans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"The children who read about the three funny little pigs are often those who grow up to be readers of G. A. Henty and Zane Grey." Only a cretin, she implied, could get literary satisfaction out of The Little Red Hen or the senseless animism of Peter Rabbit. She offered...
On the stage of Manhattan's New Amsterdam Theatre which a few weeks ago held pop-eyed Eddie Cantor and the spangled chorus girls of Whoopee, stood portly President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University. A play was about to begin; he asked the audience to remain seated after...
HUDSON RIVER BRACKETED-Edith Wharton-Appleton ($2.50). Vance Weston, son of a small-town real-estate operator who has made, not a "pile" exactly but a neat mound, feels immortal longings in him. He writes poetry and learns about a small part of life from a wanton wench. When he...
HANNA-Thomas Beer-Knopf ($4). The Man. "Hanna's luck" was proverbial, but like so many easy explanations of success it will not bear scrutiny. Even in business he had his ups and downs; in politics no less. For five years he, a millionaire, tried to make a newspaper...
With such abstruse connections, William Bolitho ties his subjects to an arbitrary definition of "adventurer" and a theatrical title. Thus also, with a stretched premise, he gives himself an excuse for an eccentric examination of their behavior, scandals, intentions, tragedies.