Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series, I had an exceptional opportunity to observe the rare catholicity of his taste and the absolute independence of his judgment. He would not even consider anything that did not meet three tests: it must be simple, of superior literary technique, and of wholesome human sentiment. No author's name would recommend a selection deficient in any one requirement. For example, Stevenson's children's verses were mostly "adult opinions in grown-up language". "I wouldn't have in my book a poem with 'birdie' in it, even if Alfred Tennyson did write it." I fondly thought that Campbell...
...behind the thirty chapters of America Finding Herself will largely reveal the method of the book. All the authors, actors, books that influenced people or interested them 20 years ago are written down under separate headings. Twenty-three of the games that children used to play are listed by name. Under the heading "Plays," there are 104 titles; under "Songs...
Some 15 years ago a small Italian, Gallo his last name and Fortune his first, took a ragged opera company foundering on the Pacific Coast, called it his own. Few had heard the name Gallo, fewer still had faith in his venture. But the San Carlo Company prospered, played a week here, three nights there in U. S. cities that had no opera, made a name for the impresario who could give popular-priced performances and succeed. Last week the San Carlo Company began a two-weeks' engagement in Manhattan, not in the old Century Theatre that had been...
...QUEST OF YOUTH-Jeffery Farnol-Little Brown ($2.50). Sir Marmaduke Anthony Ashley John de la Pole Vane-Temperly not unnaturally grows tired of a solitude broken only by hearing his faithful servant John Hobbs speak his name in a respectful whisper through the corridors of a big mansion. In Hessian boots and quest of youth, he ventures over the blood-and-thunderous landscape on which he finds, among other adventures, his wife who had left him 20 years before and Eve-Ann Ash, the girl he kisses on the last page. This is after Jasper Shrig, detective, has made sure...
...realization of what seemed to be a fool's dream has more than purely commercial significance. It is illustrative of the changed way in which men are projecting themselves down the years. The Pyramids insured the endurance of the dead pharaoh's name; the skyscrapers, tunnels and bridges of today are dedicated to the service of the people. But there are few more revealing ironies than that it is still the name of the man who pays that is perpetuated; only martyrdom to the work can make eligible the name of its creator...