Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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HARVARD 1926 HUNTINGTON Knowlton, 2b. 3b., Waterman McGlone, s.s. c.f., Gray Slayton, 3b. s.s., Fulton Todd, l.f. 2b., Norris Field, 1b. l.f., Kerr Burton, c.f. r.f., Clemmons Allen, Pratt, r.f. 1b., Albianin Maher, c. c., Radcliffe Casto, Nash, Puffer or, Mosely, p. p., Underwood...
...introducing the budget into the Parliament, Henry Burton, Minister of Finance, stated that the Union was faced with a deficit of ?1,353,000. He added, however, that the worst of the hard times through which South Africa had passed was over...
...picture theatre, but the occasional "movie-goers" exhibit far greater care in their selections. They even peruse the papers to assure themselves of a congenial evening's entertainment, needless to say, their interests differ widely: followers of William S. Hart are bored by a modern "problem play"; advocates of Burton Holmes contemptuously turn up their noses at lovely lingerie, and Mark Sennet enthusiasts fall asleep rather than see a hoop-skirt. Theatre-owners, realizing that it is all a matter of taste, and that the fewer discontented patrons, the better the business, advertise their programs by flaring posters. Hence...
...reception has been uneven. It is an easy book to rave over and an even easier one at which to laugh. A few of the unintelligently prurient have been shocked by its plain speaking. F. P. A., of The New York World, was bored by it. So were Burton Rascoe, of The New York Tribune, and Edmund Wilson, Jr., of The Dial. Dr. Henry Seidel Canby,_ of The Literary Review, regards it as " a new Pilgrim's Progress." His praise is not quite unqualified, but he says of Mr. Anderson: "If we are to have an American Hardy...
...Dial has awarded its $2,000 prize for the best poem of 1922 to an opus entitled The Waste Land, by T. S. Eliot. Burton Rascoe, of The New York Tribune, hails it as incomparably great. Edmund Wilson, Jr., of Vanity Fair, is no less enthusiastic in praise of it. So is J. Middleton Murry, British critic...