Word: canfields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...World), George Sterling (San Francisco), William Allen White, Heywood Broun, Allan Nevins. And there are many creative writers whose discussion of one another's work stands for much that is good in U. S. criticism-William McFee, Christopher Morley, Thomas Beer, Louis Bromfield, Elmer Davis, John Erskine, Dorothy Canfield...
MADE-TO-ORDER STORIES-Dorothy Canfield-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Mrs. Fisher's concoction made to the order and delight of her ten-year-old son. Illustrated...
...they shook off the suds and embarked upon a career untrammeled by clotheslines. It is a contemporaneous chronicle, in the age of Ramsay MacDonald, broadcasting and world-flying. So that there are several "remarkable experiences", especially for Widower Preemby, despite the fact that some of the minor characters play Canfield every evening...
District Attorney Jerome of Manhattan was trying to obtain evidence against Richard A. Canfield, famed gambler. Vanderbilt was known to be a frequenter of Canfield's place; dowagers who had never set foot therein avowed that he had often lost as much as $75,000 in one evening. The attorney subpoenaed him as a witness. He, with a gentleman's reticence for airing his losses in public, avoided the subpoena. Hundreds of detectives believing him to be concealed in his Manhattan house, beleaguered the place. The press played up the episode as a farce. Crowds gathered to stare...
...addressed post-cards-"Dear Harriet: Just dandy out here. Wish you were with us. Arrived at 4:37 and leave tomorrow morning at 9:22. Love to all. Edith"-and went to dine in a body at the biggest hotel. When the train moved on, games of double canfield began again; diaries were brought up to date, magazines were fished out, idle moments were devoted to picturing in advance the wonders of Seattle, where all were going; the excitement of the 47th Annual Convention of the American Library Asociation, which all would attend; the further grandeurs and marvels of Alaska...