Word: dodd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...books if it does not make them read. The woman who in Addison's day filled her library with the worthwhile books done in wooden blocks with deceptive backs, can now afford the actual volumes. Whether she finds time or inclination to read them is an important consideration. Mr. Dodd, President of the Association said that she does, that the public is learning to discriminate instead of buying "best sellers because everyone is reading them," and that "the enormous increase of interest in non-fiction" is a most favorable sign. Agreeing heartily with this optimism...
...BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1927- Edited by Edward J. O'Brien-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). Superlatives are dangerous. Yet it would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to arrange a more generally satisfying collection than the one which Editor O'Brien makes it his annual business to compile. Ernest Hemingway's famed The Killers, about two men who go into a lunch counter looking for a man they want to murder; Owen Wister's story about the card sharping son of a British lord; Joseph Hergesheimer's Triall by Armes, winding the suave coils of its prose around...
...Prologue for the Opening of the University Theatre at Yale University," done by the Yale University Press, and dated April 1927, has only recently been received at Widener Library. The Prologue is written inverse by Lee Wilson Dodd at the request of G. P. Baker '87. Only 40 copies of this book were printed, for private circulation...
GRITNY PEOPLE-R. Emmet Kennedy-Dodd-Mead ($2.50). Author Kennedy brings the colored talent of Gretna, across the river from New Orleans, to Aunt Susan's cookshop where they tell their tales and croon their tunes. The reader may be gripped with pathos, shaken with laughter-if he escapes suffocation in the cloud of dialect which pervades the book from cover to cover. There is also a spirit of ineffable quaintness at times a bit trying. Gritny People is, perhaps, less fiction than a study of primitive Negro character and lore...
...CAREWS-Martha Ostenso- Dodd, Mead...