Word: harcourt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania: " My nephew, Harcourt Johnson, 26 years of age, is the youngest member of the British House of Commons. He was just elected at a by-election and defeated a member of Bonar Law's ministry for the seat...
HOMELY LILLA - Robert Herrick- Harcourt. Lilla is even more stupid than homely. As she grows up she gradually discovers that, despite her plainness, she has a considerable power over men. She marries an amiable school principal, is completely unhappy with him in a dull, acquiescing sort of way, and then leaves him. She finally finds a degree of happiness with another man. The book is a painstaking and outspoken examination of her problems...
Under the inclusive but indefinite title of "The Drama and the Stage" (Harcourt, Brace), Ludwig Lewisohn has collected into book form a series of random sketches and studies that first appeared in "The Nation." The diminutive essays so collected cover a wide field, include book reviews, play reviews, and by the way studies in the fundamentals in the drama and theatre. Mr. Lewisohn has recognized the difficulties that beset him, and the inevitable criticisms of a volume of sketches written for a particular occasion. "The brief essay and studies that compose this volume are desultory only in appearance" he says...
...Junior Dance Committee has announced the following list of 15 patronesses for the Junior Dance on Friday, March 3: Mrs. Harcourt Amory, Mrs. D. F. Bush, Mrs. Amory Chapin, Mrs. Joseph Clark, Mrs. C. K. Cummings, Mrs. Russell Duane, Mrs. W. K. Flint, Mrs. H. W. Harris, Mrs. J. S. Logan Jr., Mrs. A. L. Lowell, Mrs. Mathew Luce, Mrs. E. R. Nash, Mrs. George Owen, Mrs. T. N. Perkins, and Mrs. Edgar Scott...
...said of Dr. Blair's "is the best limited, the best expressed; there is the most warmth without fanaticism the most rational transport." VOLUMES CHOSEN FOR REVIEW IN THE CRIMSON'S CHRISTMAS BOOKSHELF December 18, 1920. OUTSTANDING PUBLICATIONS OF 1920. CLASS TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER Fiction. Main Street. Sinclair Lewis. Harcourt. Travel. White Shadows in the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien Century. Biography. Theodore Roosevelt, and Autobiography Scribners. Essays. Dame School of Experience. Samuel Crofters Houghton Miffin. Letters. Familiar Letters of William James. Atlantic Monthly. Poetry. Heavens and Earth. Stephen Vincent Be net Henry Holt. Humor. Winsome Winnie. Steaphen Leacock. John...