Word: broun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heywood Broun: ". . . an amazingly bad play...
...wood Broun: ". . . We have never seen her play better...
...Heywood Broun: ". . . . inconsequential plan...
...this group, but he seldom eats with them. He sits at his Park Row desk, diligently arguing with a telephone operator most of the day, an occupation which seems to aid him in the pursuit of the elusive brilliant line for the close of his column. Heywood Broun, lumbering, absorbed, but always jovial, is usually present. Of all persons to be accused of literary chicanery, he is the least guilty. Honesty of judgment is characteristic of him. He is childishly interested in his own writing, and proud of it, just as he is childishly interested in and proud...
...altogether natural that the name of Yale should be heard more often than that of Harvard in literary company. Yale itself, it must be frankly acknowledged, has not been the source of these critical inventions: merely Yale's friends among the New York literati, of whom Heywood Broun, a self-proclaimed loyal Harvard man, has been the worst offender. When the roll is called a few years later, the ghost will not be among those present...