Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there will be an informal dinner at the Commander Hotel, Cambridge, at 6.15 o'clock. The speakers will be Mr. E. W. Weeks, of the Atlantic Monthly Company, Mr. Henry Longfellow Dana '03, of Cambridge, Professor R. S. Hillyer '17, associate Professor of English, and Miss Phyllis Bottome, British novelist, author of "Devil's Due," and other stories...
...boys could not tell sex from a horsecar, her girls know skyscrapers are phallic. Though writing in this general drift (Bad Girl, Loose Ladies, Kept Woman], Authoress Delmar manages to steer her novels into waters of some depth. She is serious, sincere, sympathetic. At her best she grants a novelist's final absolution to the world-she writes of her characters as they would write of themselves. In her latest novel Authoress Delmar writes of three women and takes pains to show, not only that they lived, but that they lived too long. The thesis would swamp the book...
...left a higher regard and deeper affection among students than Bliss Perry. Fisherman, Editor, and Teacher, his kindly simplicity and charm are remembered long after English 41 fades into the dimly forgotten. Dr. Hauptmann, German dramatist and playwright, is equally qualified to speak in this field. As an historian, novelist, and philosopher of history, Goethe spanned past and present and still raises vital issues in the modern world. Societies of commemoration, lectures, and prizes could be, and have been, devoted to less worthy ends than that of keeping alive his work...
...make a speech about it. It is even more prudent, if you live in New York City and are a writer with a flair for succoring the oppressed, not to try either. One who knows this now is Waldo Frank, 42, globe-trotting lecturer, critic (Our America), novelist (City Block), journalist (for the New Republic and New Masses...
...little by these actions. True, they have so far kept the general public from learning the true facts about conditions in the coal fields and won three minor victories against the press. On the other hand the public is now aware of the abuses. Dreiser as a widely-read novelist can and undoubtedly will air his views on the subject. The Seripps-Howard newspapers have been running daily stories about the reign of terror. Frank and his associates have already started Congressional investigation and they can at a moment's notice will the controversial magazines with their findings...