Word: garnett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MUST-David Garnett-Knopf ($2.50). What shall befall the tall but beautiful, timid but intelligent daughter of a widowed vicar in a hamlet of the English fen country? Author T. F. Powys would surely bring her to harm through the primeval malice of some local lout. Sheila Kaye-Smith might supply her with a young gentleman and beset their true love with gossip and the father's disapproval. H. G. Wells would find her at least a temporary career; Arnold Bennett would describe her shoelaces and thoughts on dusting the stairs. Hugh Walpole might make her a sweet minor...
...where the grocer's son, an artist, turns out to be no lover at all but her means of meeting one, whom she marries and by whom all her perplexed misgivings about being lost in life are removed. There is nothing probable or improbable about the story. Author Garnett simply contrives to fill his pages with an imminence surpassing even the beauty of Anne's straw-colored hair and the coming of spring to an English countryside...
...Little, Brown ($1.50). Some 40 years ago, critics hurled brickbats and bouquets, hurled them hard, at this small book, whose pseudonymous author was then headmaster of the City of London School, the Rev. Edwin Abbott Abbott, M.A., D.D. Now the book is republished with a foreword by erudite William Garnett, in view of the detection of a fourth dimension by Dr. Einstein. It is a geometric romance for non-mathematicians; an extremely simple fable with amazing implications and a vein of social satire that remains ageless...
...Chase, of Brookline, Herbert Fields, of Huntington, W. Va, Lawrence Trevor Grimm, of Los Angeles, Cal., Foster Knight, of Dedham, Jack Burton Nason, of Erie, Pa., Henry Harrison Proctor, of Boston, Joseph Earle Stevens Jr., of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., Walter Sheldon, Tower Jr., of Maplewood, N. F., John Garnett Whitham Jr., Lawrence, George Leon Weil Jr., of New York City...
Bronson Winthrop Griscom of Syosset, New York, has been appointed Freshman Track Manager, it was announced yesterday by Manager, S. deJ. Osborne '26. John Garnett Whitham Jr. of Lawrence has been appointed Assistant Manager, and James Hooper Grew of Boston has been appointed Second Assistant Manager. Griscom prepared at St. Paul's School, Whitham at Andover, and Grew at St. Marks. The first two winners of the managerial positions will receive their numerals. The appointments were made at the end of a six week's competition...