Word: canfields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MATERIAL?Dorothy Canfield ?Harcourt ($2.00). "In this un- related, unorganized bundle of facts," says Dorothy Canfield, "I give you just the sort of thing from which a novelist makes principal or secondary characters, or episodes in a novel. I offer them to you for the novels you are writing in your own heads. I have treated you just as though you were that other self in me who is my best reader. I have given you the fare I like best." The reader expects "joltings"?especially after reading the publisher's blurb, stating that the author has attempted...
...required to throw their liquor overboard-instead it was securely sealed. This happened to the Cedric and the Carmania. In the port of New York crews of vessels belonging to countries which legally require liquor rations for their seamen, continued to receive their liquor. New York Prohibition Director Canfield announced that he had received a telegram from Commissioner Haynes that the United States Public Health Service would issue medicinal liquor permits to such ships on the assumption that since the liquor was legally required it was medicinal. Contradictory reports were issued in Washington. British steamships, it was announced, will sail...
...broad jump, pole vault, and 35-pound weight throw, disposed of a Soldiers Field during the afternoon, started Dartmouth off on a 12-point lead over the Crimson and Cornell. Murphy's leap placed third in the jump, trailing Canfield and Swoboda of Hanover, Libbey's record in the pole vault was almost half a foot better than the efforts of Guinlock of Cornell and Skiles of Dartmouth, who tied for second at 12 feet flat, while Marshall was an easy winner in the weight...
Broad Jump.--Won by Canfield (D), 21ft. 3 1-4in.; second, Swoboda (D), 21ft. 1 1-2in,; third, Murphy (H), w0ft...
Just such a pertinent dissertation, or series of dissertations, is Mr. Lyons' "Moby Lane". The book is a compilation of very short stories by an avowedly humorous, and occasionally incisive, author Not unlike Dorothy Canfield's "Hillsboro People", it is to us more fascinating than that charming collection of stories, partly, no doubt, by reason of its dealing with life in a less familiar stamping ground than New England...