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...County. When his farmer father died, the Wood family moved to nearby Cedar Rapids, where ten-year-old Grant helped support his mother and three other children by doing chores for the neighbors. After working his way through high school, he drifted about the Middle West as a jewelry craftsman, a night watchman in a mortuary, a country schoolteacher. In 1913 he managed to enter the night classes of the Chicago Art Institute...
...only English silversmiths, notably Hester Bateman, feature the collection of silver, but an American craftsman, John Bart, has several examples of his intricate workmanship in the exhibit...
...Yutang is a novelist of strict limitations. His popular-philosopher serenity betrays him into platform sleekness. A too-crafty craftsman, he complicates his action with a set of tediously artificial misunderstandings...
...first Noel Coward show to come to America in almost five years, "Blithe Spirit" can only increase the already fabulous reputation of its author. He has long since reached the status of master-craftsman and his latest play is of the best in the art of comedy. Its story is unbelievably impossible, but it is so deftly handled that it seems as though it might happen to any one of us if we were to dabble in the occult. To tell the story would be a sin against your enjoyment of the play so the rest of this review will...
...animal, even of the machine, against the human. Wilson brilliantly points out the shifts and tightenings of these allegiances as they develop in Kipling's stories. He also points out that though Kipling is now neglected as a serious literary figure, he was the greatest prose craftsman of his time, with one of his time's greatest talents...