Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In a Beacon Hill drawing room one Saturday afternoon in 1893 an awed young man was introduced in a loud voice to a tiny, asthmatic, homely oldster. The young man was Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe, 29, recently made assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly. The old man was Dr. Oliver...
"If the world's a stage," says Elizabeth Bowen, "there must be some wonderful parts." The tragedy of John Charles Frémont was not that he could not fill the roles, or that he did not enjoy them; he had all the equipment of a leading actor, better...
If Diego Rivera has not since been forgotten in the U. S. it is thanks to two beautiful frescoes in San Francisco, one in Detroit, and at least partly to the writings of his faithful friend, Bertram David Wolfe.* Last week Wolfe paid Rivera, now 52, the greater tribute of...
So many biographies of reformers have recently appeared that it may become an open question whether their work was ever as important as their books about it. But for Oswald Garrison Villard, owner for 15 years of The Nation, and tireless champion of civil liberties, no such question is possible...
When Granville Hicks was appointed one of the counselors in American civilization last year this paper urged "if Hicks proves a success as a councilor, that Harvard grant him a regular position on the Faculty." For some unexplained, but perhaps not inexplicable, reason neither Mr. Hicks nor any of his...