Word: hurd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield), a rich young Englishman of the fin de siècle, was supposed to be the embodiment of youth's beauty and innocence. Artist Basil Hallward (Lowell Gilmore) was inspired by him to paint his masterpiece. But even as the finished portrait of Dorian stood drying, Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders) infected the young man's mind with the dread of losing his youth and with the amoral desire to seek experience for its own sake...
Left end, S. Livermore, Jr., Adams; left tackle, W.E.L. Sutton, Jr., Lowell; left guard, F.R. Walsh, V-12; center, P.W. Kavanaugh, V-12; right guard, C.C. Adams, V-12; right tackle, J.P. Quinn, V-12; right end, J.C. Hurd, V-12; quarterback, M.C. Jenkins, NROTC; left halfback, B.L. Boyce, NROTC; right halfback, J.P. Kelly, V-12; fullback, H.J. Brogden, Jr., NROTC...
Domestic Munichman. Jim Hurd was a poor relation of the Boston Leveretts. He had pride of poverty, a New England conscience, considerable talent, a gauche attractiveness to women, a fundamental moral feebleness. He was always deeply attached to his mother...
...emerged from World War I, Jim seemed capable of great things. William Lyon Phelps led the reviewers' chorus in praising his first novel, Young Glory. Hurd was perplexed between the rich advances offered him by Publisher H. H. Ramsay and more modest prospects which would make serious writing possible. Ramsay's brash, glittering daughter Barbara attracted him. When she turned him down, he ran to his second cousin Mary for comfort, mistook his infantilism for love, deceived Mary to boot. He married Barbara. Mary moved into spinsterhood, scientific work and philanthropy, became in the end an impressive woman...
...Hurd, unable to forgive his wife her lover, took a mistress named Constance Field, whose letters are perhaps the best thing in the novel. They began with the noisome clatter, wit, self-love and tinny ribaldry of an avid young female intellectual. They moved toward maturity and then into a hell soon matched by the hell Authoress Howe constructs for her hero...