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...Kewaskum, Wis., 98 villagers marched to the polls to vote for county supervisor, heard that Candidate Emil Backhaus was dead, that Candidate M. W. Rosenheimer had withdrawn from the race. The vote: Emil Backhaus, 64; M. W. Rosenheimer...
...rich output of food, men, and manufactured articles: loyal to none of its many creeds, prohibitions, fads, hypocrisies; now letting itself be governed, now ungovernable." Sprig of an old U. S. family with traditions of public service, Wescott was pointed for the ministry, but at twelve he left home (Kewaskum, Wis.) for the more spacious academic atmosphere of West Bend and Waukesha, went on to the University of Chicago, where he headed the Poetry Club and took his literary vows. When he started writing reviews for Poetry, A Magazine of Verse, Margaret Anderson mistook him for an Englishman. Wescott explained...
...Author. Though born of farmer stock (Kewaskum, Wis., 1901) Author Wescott's family "has aristocratic rather than middleclass prejudices; it does not hoard up its sons for the sake of the family fortune, but regards it as a duty to make gifts of them to 'the State.' "... Intended by them to be an ecclesiastical offering, though his own ambition was to be a musician, Glenway has turned out to be a Literary Gift. His books, The Apple of the Eye, The Grandmothers, Goodbye Wisconsin, The Babe's Bed, picture his native Middle West of which...
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