Word: barrette
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WOMAN ON HORSEBACK-William E. Barrett-Stokes...
...after six years of war with Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, the male population added up to about 29,000. On the strength of this record Lopez has usually been considered a strong candidate for first place in the ranks of the world's worst rulers. Last week William Barrett made a valiant attempt to restore Lopez' tarnished laurels with a romantic, fictionized biography that paid a great deal of attention to the tremendous odds against which Lopez was foolish enough to fight...
...which annually follows the show will be in the Balinese Room of the Hotel Somerset on March 31 and in the Towne Club the next night. In New York the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria will house the cabaret, and Deanna Durbin, Libby Holman, Ethel Merman, and Sheila Barrett are among those who are scheduled to entertain...
...good fortune to study under De Voto, and as a writer who has found his counsel and advice of good service since leaving college, I can only wish your cause success. Mr. De Voto brought English composition at Harvard back to the field's great days under Barrett Wendell and Copie; in addition, he gave a vigorous treatment of contemporary American literature, which seems highly important for the Harvard undergraduate. His courses were not "aesthetic" in appeal, and he taught no sterile tradition of polite letters. . . . It would be a great pity if Harvard should ignore or reject...
...influence upon undergraduates in the field of English was once compared by his students to that of Barrett Wendell. Among his books have been "Mark Twain's America," "Forays and Rebuttals," a collection of essays, and a novel, "We Accept with Pleasure...