Word: cather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vermilion, Ohio (pop. 1,464) one evening last week, neither the poetry of Robert Browning nor the novels of Willa Cather were uppermost in the minds of Mrs. Marvell Snyder, wife of the school superintendent, or Mrs. Bessie Roscoe, wife of the Vermilion News editor, as they finished the supper dishes and hurried around to the home of Mrs. Zella English, wife of the Congregational minister. Occasion was a meeting of the Sorosis Club, Vermilion's select female literary-social organization. For the past five months culture had been almost forgotten as the Sorosis Club and all Vermilion rocked...
That's the main problem facing Harvard's ex-Big League Coach Injuries, however, have provided more troubles. Craig Woodruff, the wise-cracking short stop, will be out of the game because of a back injury. Johny Fitzpatrick will take his place at short. The other recent causality, Cather Dick Maguire, who suffered a split finger in the Tufts game on Saturday, is expected to be on deck this afternoon. He is one of the better laddies that have squatted behind a Harvard plate and his pegs to second would be severely missed...
...from the standpoint of the proletarian oppressed by a capitalist society. Throughout the book Mr. Hicks reasons from this premise, not toward it. That literature can have any other attributes which gives it a right to live he will not admit. Consequently Mark Twain, Henry James, Emily Dickinson, Willa Cather, Eugene O'Neill are, though grudgingly praised for artistry or insight, consigned to limbo for inadequacy...
...Cuban politics and calls no grave-digging spade by its right name. Sinister echoes of U. S. big business, of Havana terrorism, are felt only in the background of this pastoral tale of Cuban peasantry. Variously and wildly com- pared to the work of Thornton Wilder, Norman Douglas, Willa Cather, Author Wright's first novel needs no such gaudy bush: to plain palates it will taste like a good, sun-ripened vin du pays. Now an English instructor at his alma mater Haverford College, Author Wright (real name: William Reitzel) worked in Cuba a year five years ago, there...
...highbrow in his choice: he enjoyed the same thrillers you and I were reared on. He knows his James Bryce, John Fiske, Parkman, Prescott, James Ford Rhodes, Trevelyan, Truslow Adams. . . . Among late American novelists his favorites seem to be Thomas Nelson Page, Tarkington, Edith Wharton, Stewart Edward White, Willa Cather, Harry Leon Wilson, Zane Grey...