Word: duffus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mouse, the first U. S. guides evoked far more literary enthusiasm than official publications usually raise. Said Critic Lewis Mumford as the first volumes appeared, "These guidebooks are the finest contribution to American patriotism that has been made in our generation." Said New York Times''s Robert Duffus, as the full nation-wide scope of the Project appeared: "The guides . . . will enable us for the first time to hold the mirror up to all America." Although the Massachusetts guide was denounced by Governor Hurley for its reference to the Sacco-Vanzetti Case, less sensitive readers judged the books...
NIGHT BETWEEN THE RIVERS-R. L. Duffus-Macmillan ($2.50). What a one- night New York City general strike did to the cocktail party of a beautiful interior decorator; dubious political prophecy but pleasant enough melodrama about New York intellectuals...
...HEART-R. L. Duffus-Macmillan ($2.50). Readable, pleasant, but somewhat labored satire on the political upheavals in the Kingdom of East Georgiana...
HARVARD N. Y. RUGBY CLUB Leonard, f f, Donald Simpson, w3/4 w3/4, Frendenthal Potter, c3/4 c3/4, Howland Kennedy, c3/4 c3/4, Holton Babbitt, w3/4 w3/4, Barris Mieklejohn, fly1/2 fly1/2, Duffus Fayette, s1/2, s1/2, Carey P. Knapp, f f, Miller Clowes, f f, Burney E. Whitney, f f, Fullerton R. Knapp, f f, Maloney McDaniel, f f, Mulcahy Williams, f f, Fraser Scott, f f, Wilbur Kelly, f f, Madden...
...Morgan, addressed to the New York Times a column-long letter in refutation of the current thesis that his firm's financial enlistment with the Allies helped mightily to draw the U. S. into the War. Taking off from a repetition of that thesis by R. L. Duffus in a Times review of Harold Nicolson's biography of the late Morgan Partner Dwight Morrow (TIME, Oct. 7), Partner Lamont argued...