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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CREWE TRAIN-Rose Macaulay -Boni & Liveright ($2). The title simply means, from a British catchphrase, "wrong train." Denham Dobie, daughter of a peace-loving British cleric, grows up barefoot in a remote Spanish hamlet with a native stepmother and half-breed half-sisters. Her father dies. Her aunt, the Elinor Glynnish wife of a smart London publisher, "rescues" the reluctant orphan, who makes no head nor tail of her relatives' civilized occupations: incessantly scribbling books or about books, doing things they dislike because others do them, concerning themselves with every one's private affairs, eternally gibbling, gabbling. Give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Dec. 6, 1926 | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...Walter Denham and Davemnt, Professor Burdock Sever 11, English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 11/26/1926 | See Source »

...DENHAM FOUTS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 21, 1926 | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...complete list of the authors on exhibition: John Cleveland, Abraham Cowley, Thomas Stanley, Sir John Suckling, Sir John Taylor, George Wither, Frances Quarles, Henry Vaughan, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, John Davies John Taylor, the Water-Poet, Giles Fletcher the Younger, Sir William Davenant, James Harrington, Richard Crashaw, Sir John Denham, Francis Hubert, Robert Anton, Thomas Nabbes, George Buck, John Hepwith, Samuel Rewlands, Nicholas Hooker, Alex Rosse, Thomas Carew, Robert Stapleton, Joseph Hall, Richard Lovelace, Ben Jonson, George Chapman, Richard Flecknoe, and Nicholas Breton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RARE EDITIONS OF ENGLISH POETS GIVEN LIBRARY IN MEMORY OF LIONEL HARVARD | 3/3/1926 | See Source »

...close contests are promised. The referee and judges for the tournament were assigned yesterday by the state boxing commission. Larry Conley, instructor of boxing at the University will be the third man in the ring. The judges will be G. Edward Dixon of Cambridge and F. H. Lincoln of Denham. Fred Wood will act as timer with Dan Kelly of the Physical Training Department as announcer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOXING CHAMPIONS TO DEFEND TITLES AT HEMENWAY AT 8 | 4/1/1921 | See Source »

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