Word: farrars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. John Chipman Farrar, editor of the Bookman, author of Songs for Parents, The Magic Sea Shell, etc.; to Miss Margaret Petherbridge, cross word puzzle editor of the New York World, co-author of the Simon and Schuster crossword puzzle books, daughter of H. W. Petherbridge, treasurer of the National Licorice Co. of Brooklyn. He and she graduated, in 1919, respectively from Yale and Smith Colleges, and both joined the staff of the World soon afterward. He left the World to edit the Bookman in 1921 and was made a general editorial adviser to its publishers, George H. Doran...
...have not the spirit to call our souls our own; no, nor even to entertain the belief that we have souls." This is the conclusion to which Mr. Farrar of The Bookman comes at the end of an editorial in the current issue. Why is it, Mr. Farrar wonders, than the people of America prefer to get their opinions ready-made instead of making them for themselves...
...Because," says Mr. Farrar, it would require a definite stand on our parts, a stand based on convictions, on a mode of conduct the mere thought of which causes us these days to be bored." One might conclude from this that Mr. Farrar's ideal American is the alert active person whose been eye takes in any given situation at a glance, whose firm feet immediately plant them selves immovably on one side of the fence in question, whose active mind thereafter either views with alarm what lies beyond the fence or points proudly to what he stands beside...
Perhaps Mr. Farrar's diagnosis of the American frame of mind is incorrect; perhaps he does Americans a great injustice; perhaps he credits them with a virtue which they do not deserve. But if his diagnosis he correct, wherefore be sorrowful? Perhaps the beauties of serene contemplation are lost upon Mr. Farrar completely, but certainly be fails to perceive the possibilities of such contemplation in the particular case of the American people. The present American frame of mind is hardly a thing to be admired; but its future is promising. It is not beyond the limits of the possible that...
...Edgar Farrar...