Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Guest's poems will be forgotten tomorrow; but as ballads of the times they cannot be neglected. His collected poems, under the revealing title The Passing Throng, will be published this season. All along Main Street men who never even heard of Robert Frost will be reading Edgar A. Guest...
...book of sound and fascinating reading is "The Great Wall of China", by William Edgar Geil, F.R.G.S. What do you know about it? Brought out at $2.50 it may now be purchased...
...William Edgar Crosby Jr. '24, of West Newton, captain-elect of the University hockey team, and Bernard Sheridan Cogan '23, of Stoneham, have been appointed, it was announced yesterday, Junior head usher and Tree Orator, respectively, by the 1923 Class Day Committee. The head usher for Class Day has personal supervision of the exercises in Sanders Theatre, the Stadium, and the Yard, and he appoints the assistant head ushers and the ushers who aid him in carrying out the arrangements...
SKEETERS KIRBY-Edgar Lee Masters-Macmillan ($2.00). Skeeters starts in as a boy; continues through a period of heavy drinking, sexual misbehavior, hard thinking, unsuccessful marrying, and a distasteful attempt at the law: finally finds himself as a poet. The book aims high. Whether it is uniformly successful is open to question. It is, at all events, vivid, powerful-and outspoken...
ANYTHING MIGHT HAPPEN-Edgar Selwyn has written a comedy of mannerly intoxication. Anything might happen, but what actually does is rather amusing than important. Two of Manhattan's most impeccable recently-jilted (Roland Young and Leslie Howard) become inextricably involved with each other's fiancees until the last act, when an extensive readjustment takes place...