Word: harker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unmitigated excitement. Author Masefield, famed and beloved as the poet of Dauber, Reynard the Fox, etc., does not, one hopes, take his novel writing as anything but an exuberant indulgence with, one also hopes, some lucrative return. There is nothing in this or in his first prose extravaganza, Sard Harker, to show that the Sage of Boar's Hill knows anything about novels except to start a tale and then spin away for all he is worth, and the devil take the hindermost reader. His new title stands for One Damn Thing After Another...
...teams when the starting whistle blew were lined up as follows: HARVARD OXFORD-CAMBRIDGE Clifford g. g. Borden Watson pt. pt. Ogilvie Gamache c.pt. c.pt. Greenwood Linn f.d. f.d. Brown Reed s.d. s.d. Sholl Coombs t.d. t.d. Harker Hatch c. c. Good Sayles t.a. ta. Fullbright Babson s.a. s.a. Marshall Simpson f.a. f.a. Adshed Lane o.h. o.h. Melland Gillies i.h. i.h. Fornby...
...lineup of the teams will probably be as follows: HARVARD OXFORD_CAMBRIDGE Clifford, G. GG. Borden Watson, pt. pt. Ogilvie Gamache, C.pt c.pt. Greenwood Lann, f.d. f.d. Brown Reed, s.d. s.d. Good Combs, t.d. t.d. Harker Hatch, c. c. Adshead Sayles, t.a. t.a., Formby Babson, s.a. s.a., Bowker Simpson, f.a. f.a., Mallard Gillies, o.h. o.h., Marshall Lane, i.h. i.h., Cole
...seeing it through. In the department of book reviews, three new books are reviewed at length, and five more are graced with brief notes, always capable and frequently keen. The captions, however, betray a slightly ruddy tint: "Barrett Wendell and His Letters" is headed "Pink Spats and Humanism"; "Sard Harker, Nautical Soul-Mates"; and Cabell's new book, for some reason that for the moment escapes the writer's mind. "Beyond Garters...
...Story. Between forest and sea, high over Las Palomas harbor, was the mansion known as Los Xicales, where the descendant of one who came with Cortez had lived to his end in faith, poverty and style. Sard Harker, sailor, lay on the barque Venturer in Las Palomas harbor, dreaming of a girl he loved. In his dream, the vision of that proud and now empty house stood up clear and portentious, while a voice rang in his ears : "You will meet her again in that house for the second of three times. It will be very, very important...