Word: harper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRYSTAL AND A MOTHER? Ellen du Pois Taylor?Harper ($2). It was that pudgy Machiavelli, Author Ben Hecht, who first made Chicago conscious of its exciting capacity for sophisticated wickedness. Mrs. Taylor, sprung from nowhere, will now revive the Hechtic excitement. Her wit and style are surpassingly original. Her treatment of esoteric erotics, from the viewpoint of a hard-boiled young Dakota virgin steeped in French novels, is a wide and pleasant departure from the lucubrations of Mr. Hecht's rather sleazy males. But Mrs. Taylor's actual material is like nothing so much as 17 more chapters...
JILL?E. M. Delafield?Harper ($2). The unlovely pot to which young Londoners went during and after the War is again warmed up and stirred. Jill, nubile daughter of a polite demimondaine, gets mixed in with jobless Jack Galbraith, whose time is spent begging for a pension and hoping to win public prize competitions, and his wife Doreen, who supports them by being decorative in the lobbies of small hotels. Successful Oliver Galbraith and his prim wife Cathie are the foil of respectability. They assist Jill's faithful airedale, Chips, in keeping her wholesome and girl-scoutish. Doreen finally goes...
Team B--ends: J. B. Allen '29; R. W. Hemminger '28; tackles; A. B. Bigelow '30, F. R. Williams '29; guards; M. J. Adams '28, I. B. Hanchett '29; centered D. C. Shaw '29, F. S. Brown '30, halfbacks' F. R. Harper '28, E. W. Moore '29, C. P. Clifford '28, W. S. Wetmore '30. Arthur Mills...
Team B--ends, Lewis, Allen; tackles, MacArthur, Williams; guards, Morris, Ingalls; center, Shaw; quarter back, Wetmore; backs, Mills, Moore, Harper...
...Foster Damon '14, President of the New England Poetry Club, and assistant in English, will publish on or about April 1, his collection of poems, entitled, "Astrolabe". The book, published by Harper Brothers, comes after ten year's of effort. It is Mr. Damon's first book of collected verse. In 1917, Mr. Damon was chosen as one of the eight original Harvard poets. The other poets were E. E. Cummings '15, J. R. Dos Passos '18, Robert Hillyer '17, R. S. Mitchell '15, W. A. Norris '17, Dudley Poore '17, and Cuthoert Wright...