Word: canfields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Each month the selecting committee, composed of Henry Seidel Canby. Dorothy Canfield and William Allen White selects that book which in its opinion is from all angles the best of those published, and most representative of the proper trend in modern literature. This book is then sent to each of the 40,000 subscribers to the club...
Gore--Ends, Atamian and Whittemore; Tackles, Emigh and Pettee; Guards, Canfield and Remick; Center, Freedman; Quarterback Bell; Halfbacks, Lee-and Gray; Fullback, Nelson...
...WIFE-Dorothy Canfield-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Mote, beam and matriarch...
...WIFE-Dorothy Canfield-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Mote, beam and matriarch...
...take his medicine. And when Dids goes off to college, Mrs. Bascomb finally focuses on the now pitiful, bedridden Lottie as a new object for the domineering energy and mother-love that was as much the cause as it is the cure of so much sorrow. The Significance. Dorothy Canfield has here achieved a magnificent demonstration of the literary maxim: "An author must be God to his characters." She has first caused, then seen, understood and clearly presented, everything these Bascombs think and feel and do and are. Good and bad characteristics, actions of strength and weakness, conflicting motives...