Word: dunton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Elliott's house is in a place called Dunton, a drab quarter of the Borough of Queens, N. Y. One night last week, an hour past midnight, a bulky object lying on the porch of the Elliott house detonated with a roar of which the magnitude befitted the object of its protest. This object was not Robert G. Elliott or his wife and two children, all in bed upstairs. It was society...
...James G. Dunton, in C'EST LA GUERRE (Stratford Co., Boston, 1928, $2.50) has collected a group of short stories written by men who actually went through the war. Written some ten years after "the recent unpleasantness", the stories show how hazy the unpleasant and grim side of the war has become, though leaving still the scores of amusing incidents to color the author's reminiscences. Although all the stories deal with the war, there is a wide variety of style and type. The collection is a good one and makes an excellent change in diet for the reader...
Last year Harvard was victimized by a certain Mr. Dunton, advertised as a rising star of the new school, whose "Wild Asses" would already be4 forgotten if it were not selling for fifty cents in bookstores on the Square. And now Cornell Woolrich, a Columbia undergraduate, has written of Broadway's night life as typified by her "gigolos" and "gigolettes." Just what Mr. Woolrich Knows about Broadway's night life it id difficult to determine. He says so very little that has not been said before, and very much more expressively in "the Great white Way." "Flaming Passions" and other...
WILD ASSES-James G. Dunton- Small, Maynard ($2.00). Mr Dunton an immature Harvard graduate, smudges painfully. He has a turgid mind, a high-school style, scant humor, literary myopia. Concentrating on an underground foreground, he dimly depicts crass youths guzzling bad gin, shooting craps, reading cinema magazines, swapping low stories, frequenting dives and brothels, being obscurely restless and messing up their young lives generally. One logy character plays football, stays respectable, is a college success. Another (the author) achieves a half-baked perception of his contemporaries as Wild Asses and Blunderbrats, laboriously adduces the law of compensation to flappers...
...Your recent article on Mr. Dunton's 'Wild Asses' is an interesting example of what philologians would call 'misplaced epithets.' Cambridge has a right to feel honored when a Wellesley newspaper places it in that category of places to which journalism so rarely applies biblical verses. But we regret that Wellesley has already imbibed the spirit of Dr. Moffatt's new version of the Bible. Dr. Moffatt felt justified in changing 'ark' to 'barge' and 'lice' to 'mosquitoes' so that the Bible again might become a living document. Is it by the same logic, then, that the Wellesley newspaper uses...