Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...masse of "misrepresenting" the country. He passionately championed the cause of the Italian sociologist, Pareto. His critical haymakers included swings at Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Marx, reformers and believers in planned societies, Van Wyck Brooks, progressive education. With enthusiasms just as intense as his animosities, he called Robert Frost "the finest American poet, living or dead," raged at critics who did not agree. The back pages of the Saturday Review continued to be given over to literary double-crostic puzzles and the meandering pleasantries of Christopher Morley and old Q; but up front each week readers got the most violent...
...England's culture had begun to go to seed before the Civil War, but the war acted as an almost killing frost. Where Bronson Alcott's first experiences were peaceful peddling trips to the South, his sensitive daughter Louisa got her initiation into the great world in a Civil War hospital, where, in her first hour on duty, her patient died, and where she tried to lessen a soldier's agony by reciting Dickens to him while his arm was being amputated without an anesthetic. Bronson Alcott returned from his trips across the U. S. in times...
...movements, launched a score of new writers, written an autobiography scheduled for publication this spring. Last week in Chicago, the Renaissance Society opened an exhibition of the editorial papers she left to the University of Chicago. Largely made up of matters of historical interest-letters and manuscripts of Robert Frost, James Joyce, Willa Gather, Robinson Jeffers, such items as a letter containing a check to Rupert Brooke for one of his war sonnets, returned marked deceased-the exhibition was notable for its revelation of the number of first-class writers Harriet Monroe had discovered. To U. S. readers Poetry introduced...
Fast though the busy workers shovelled away the dirt, the gas escaped faster. Frost action complicated matters still further...
Into Buenos Aires last week dropped a "flying caravan" of four U. S. women representing the People's Mandate to End War. Led by Pacifist Elise Burton Musser, former Utah State Senator, the members of the flying junket-Mrs. Enoch Wesley Frost of Arkansas, Mrs. Ana del Pulgar de Burke of Washington, D. C. and Mrs. Rebecca Hourwich Reyher of New York-left Hyde Park, N. Y. on October 30, with President Roosevelt's benediction, to exhort the Latin American nations into ratifying the Inter-American conference peace treaties (TIME...