Word: benet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...division a close contest quickly developed between Harvard's representatives, Robert E. Sherwood and Heywood Broun, authors and critics, and Yale's stalwarts, Stephen Vincent Benet, famous author, and John Thomas, Armed with chalk, each contestant faced a blackboard, waving a paper of definitions in one hand and writing vigorously with the other. For a time it was anybody's match but Benet and Thomas spurted toward the end and won by several words in record breaking time...
...magazine of this sort. The Saturday Review is as authoritative as all followers of Editor Canby knew it would be. Its editorials are clear, its reviewers carefully chosen. Its essays, if somewhat academic, have a certain charm. Mr. Morley's "The Bowling Green"and Mr. William Benet's "The Phoenix Nest" recommend it heartily to the large personal followings of these gentlemen. It is not in any sense a supplement to a paper. It is a review in the traditions of the English reviews, with somewhat of the complexion of The Times Literary Supplement; or rather, perhaps, with...
...prefer as a critic and writer of stimulating editorials-for both write editorials and both are stimulating. Miss Anne Carroll Moore's survey of children's literature in Books is unusual and Isabel Patterson does the gossip, taking her place with Burton Rascoe, with Morley, with Benet, with the anonymous and changing Kenelm Digby. Whether or not these supplements survive, it is interesting and important that the public apparently wants them and wants, too, in large quantities the Book Review section of The New York Times, which, as a purveyor of book news, has never been excelled...
John Farrar and Stephen Vincent Benet are the authors. Possibly they imputed to Peggy Eaton a nimbler wit than they devised for her. As played by Katherine Alexander, the character caught the crackle of conviction...
Nerves. Probably when the discerningly competent John Farrar and Stephen Vincent Benet are more experienced in the Theatre, they will look back upon Nerves and wonder why they ever did it. It originated as a one-act War play, was spread thinly through three acts and emerged as such an inexpert contrivance that the critics quite lost their tempers. The story discusses a young aviator with a bad heart and too much imagination who went to War, funked his duty, was driven to it, crippled himself for life getting his Boche. There is also a girl who decided with difficulty...