Word: broun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...change the subject, or rather to get one I must admit that I do not agree with Heywood Broun when he talks of Harvard admission plans. Speaking of pictures, I saw recently that he himself wants one of Gandle, and if he admits that he doesn't know what the hero of his own book looks like what right has he to talk of what out student body should look like. Of course this defending the underdog is lots of fun. I go in for it once in a while myself. But Harvard has no more need of being completely...
...even the irrepressible columnist, Heywood Broun, admits that dramatist Kelly deserved reward for past performances, if not for his prize-winning play "Craig's Wife...
...anything can put a damper on the vagabonding spirit, it is a cold. Rain helps a little. That grand New England institution of the boardwalk has its merits and its cracks. While a chair and "Gandle Follows His Nose", the book which Heywood Broun claims to have read more often that any other novel in the language--possibly because he wrote it--, may wreck the best intentions in the world...
Among those who will speak are James Byrne '77, Thomas W. Slocum '90, Richard Douglas '12, Heywood Broun '10, Alexander Woolcott, Robert C. Benchley '12, Richard Washburn Chiki '03, and Owen Wister...
...judges returned and delivered the following verdict: 1) that both the ladies were arguing for the affirmative; 2) that Mrs. Broun won; 3) that Mrs. Manners was the more persuasive...