Word: curwoods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. James Oliver Curwood, 49, conservationist and famed author of many novels of the Northwest, including The Flaming Forest, The Country Beyond and A Gentleman of Courage; from blood poisoning, at Curwood Castle, near Owosso, Mich. When 17, he traveled over a thousand miles in a carriage, selling patent medicine; afterwards he studied at the University of Michigan; and then, for seven years worked on the Detroit News-Tribune, as reporter, feature writer, assistant editor and finally editor. He then devoted his time to fiction...
Howells is an author who has been too greatly neglected in these modern days of jazz novels, Percy Marks, James Oliver Curwood, and the ever-satisfying tabloid. He is one of those excellent Victorian writers whose works have been neglected simply because he was a Victorian. In the same category falls Joel Chandler Harris, a writer of immense charm and once of great popularity. To the shame of present day taste even Harris Uncle Remus stories are not now very widely read...
...Frazier '27 as Dolores Casanova, the Spanish vampire , and R. W. Grossman 1G.B. as Jimmy Walker, Rockwell's valet, the following personnel is announced: "Pa" Ogden A. A. Laun '27 Tom Mixer E. F. Gamache'27 Bull Montana R. W. Ayer 3E.S. Zane Gray C. A. Allen'28 Ollie Curwood J. A. Hutchinson...
...dyed his doeskins black, sooted his face and flitted through the forests as an angel of warning to settlers and of destruction to Indians, after a band of redskins had yanked his wife naked from her blazing bed and scalped her before his eyes. The hero-perhaps Mr. Curwood as he would like to have been-is golden-haired, steel-sinewed David Rock who, through his attachment to the humanitarian Black Hunter, is suspected of treason by his foppish, malicious French overlords and lives through to wed silken-lashed Anne St. Denis only by the slim width of a tomahawk...
...list is an excellent commentary on culture under a democracy and, as such, is a subject neither for exultation nor for despair. If Zane Gray and Oliver Curwood seem complacent and unaesthetic to the intelligentsia, they are, nevertheless, the first choice of a complacent and unaesthetic mobocracy. If in this country, unlike Russia, there is no Tchaikowsky, neither are there downtrodden serfs. The peaks of achievement have been sacrificed for the development of the average. "The greatest good of the greatest number" is a theory that makes for social justice but hardly for the greatest...