Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stephen Vincent Benet, U. S. poet and novelist, arrived in the second class cabin of the Ile de France, delighted with the heavy sales of his 80,000-word cycloramic epic of the Civil War, John Brown's Body (chosen by the Book of the Month Club for August). Said he, "I was not sure that it was a grand poem. I had worked over it for so long I felt I had given birth to a piano...
Even the pro-prohibition professors applauded. They, in an outspeaking mood, were not inclined to resent outspeaking Brown Derbyism, especially since the equitable chairman of the prohibition roundtable, Prof. Augustus Raymond Hatton* of Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) had opened his discussion as follows...
...Toronto last week one Norman Douglas pulled at his dark brown hair. It came off his head, a wig. Exposed was a skull cap, like the Pope's. Only, instead of being white it was dark green. Norman Douglas put his hands carefully...
Between his summer home on Buzzard's Bay, Mass., and his brokerage offices in Manhattan, Richard F. Hoyt commutes at 100 miles an hour. He uses a Loening amphibian biplane, sits lazily in a cabin finished in dark brown broadcloth and saddle leather, with built-in lockers containing pigskin picnic cases. Pilot Robert E. Ellis occupies a forward cockpit, exposed to the breezes. But occasionally Broker Hoyt wishes to pilot himself. When this happens he pulls a folding seat out of the cabin ceiling, reveals a sliding hatch. Broker Hoyt mounts to the seat, opens the hatch, inserts...
DOCTOR ARNOLD or RUGBY-Arnold Whitridge-Holt ($3.00). In Tom Brown's School-Days Thomas Arnold is immortalized as the formidable headmaster, rex atque sacerdos. In his son Matthew's ode on Rugby Chapel he stands with "radiant vigor." In Dean Stanley's enthusiastic biography he is the religiously inspired pedagog. And in Strachey's flashing satiric sketch he is the stodgy pedant, a typical Victorian. Strachey thereby incurs the wrath of Arnold's great-grandson and present biographer, who adds nothing further to the portrait, but demonstrates, in a thoughtful, conscientious manner, Arnold...