Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cleverness very nearly as distinct as that of her versatile husband. George Kaufman and Marc Connolly, too, are usually here; and John Peter Toohy, press agent, author of a novel and of plays. Of such is "The Round Table." Otherwise at the Algonquin: The Rascoes, Hazel and Burton-Burton, a nervous, slender figure, vigorously collecting gossip for his column in the Sunday Tribune; Carl Van Vechten, imposing, with white hair and youthful face, bitter with his tongue, clever with the somewhat too facile pen which gave to his Peter Whiffle more charm than power or plan, is here, and with...
Professor Richard Burton is quite right in the stand he takes against "the half-baked sophistication, juvenile cynicism, indifference," among Eastern students, as the Times puts it, if these things exist in the degree that he thinks they do and they seem to, not only among some undergraduates but among men long out of college who are so devilishly clever that they make on turn with relief to Sanford and Merton. The trouble with these superior, people is that out of the bowels of their own cleverness they spin a web in which hangs nothing but dreary, dessicated warnings...
...Professor Burton should occasionally give the least touch to the soft pedal and remember that English should be good even in the deep-loined West. He is quoted as saying: "The way Western young folk go after belles-lettres almost suggests that the support of literature in the future will come from those parts." It is a striking picture that the professor draws; this lust for learning this avid, eager eating up of elegance, this relentless pursuit of the humanities. With exultant whoops the Western young folks gulp minor poetry and major essays, studies, sketches, belles-lettres, no more than...
...Mark's.--Caulkins, 2b.; Crawford, s.s.; Moseley, 3b.; de Rham, r.f.; Burton, c.f.; Winthrop, c.; Hamlen, l.f.; Knapp, p.; Wadsworth...
...MARKS Hodder, l.f. 1b., Wadsworth Hoffman, r.f. s.s., Crawford Hammond, 2b. 2b., Caulkins Samborski, c. r.f., de Rham Kerr, 1b. c.f., Burton Doherty, c.f. c., Winthrop Mann, s.s. l.f., Hamlen Toulmin, 3b. 3b., Moseley Herrmann, p. p., Knapp...