Word: madox
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Ford Madox (Hueffer) Ford, caricatured above, edits The Trans-Atlantic Review (Paris). He is 53. In 1917 he fought for Britain as a second lieutenant. Grandson of Painter Ford Madox Brown, "Fordie" was raised "to be a genius" by his philosopherfather, Dr. Franz Hueffer (long music critic of the London Times), by his grandfather and Aunt Lucy (sister-in-law of Poet Rosetti). Exposed from childhood to Fabianism, anarchism, aestheticism, etc., etc., he affects Toryism to annoy his relatives but looks "red" to the bourgeoisie. A Catholic, he sustains his family's reputation for heterodoxy by believing the Pope...
...Christmas, 1867. The melancholy Dane, a likely stripling of 14, wears a velvet tunic between the hem of which and a pair of his mother's black stockings there yawns "a sad hiatus" when he sits. Friends of the family swell the audience, including three painters-Ford Madox Brown, Laurence Alma-Tadema, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A lissom youth with auburn hair and a weak but beautiful countenance stretches on the rug, slightly disconcerting the actors by chanting the lines with them in a melodious undertone. He is called Algernon Swinburne...
JOSEPH CONRAD?Ford Madox Ford ?Little, Brown (|2.50). Ford Madox Ford collaborated with Conrad in the writing of Romance, The Inheritors, The Nature of a Crime. In this monograph, which is built up like a house of blocks out of pointed anecdotes, snatches of conversation, brief and vivid scenes recollected, the personality of Joseph Conrad is projected as he revealed it to a human being during many years of close intimacy. You have Conrad hypnotizing a country grocer into giving him three years unlimited credit, throwing teacups into the fire when heated by argument with a lady, sailing...
...following recent publications will also be reviewed: "Helen and Others", by Marina Wister; "Some Do Not ..., by Ford Madox Ford; "The Best Plays of 1923-24", selected by Burns Mantle; "The Hidden Player", by Alfred Noyes; "In the Land of Youth", by James Stephens; "The Green Hat", by Michael Arlen; and "Sails of Sunsel", by Cecil Roberts, which A. D. Welton '23, Graduate Secretary of the Union, will review...