Word: seidel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least the organization termed the Book-of-the-Mouth Club is possessed of a fearless Seleering Committee. Twice has the honor of being the best book been awarded to authors formerly unknown to literature. The judges including such people as Henry Seidel Canby, Heywood Broun, and Christopher Morley, are also evidently good precursors of popular taste, for almost every prize winner eventually reaches the list of best sellers...
...promotion of better writing and the edification of the public, is practiced professionally by a scanty corporal's guard. Critic Sherman was eminently of this group, despite the fact that much of his work was laden with a heavy ego. He lacked the quiet clarity of Dr. Henry Seidel Canby of the Saturday Review. He was an lowan, with the midlander's tendency to lunge into emotional appreciations. Sparkle was not in him, as it is in that erudite, free-lancing Irishman, Ernest Boyd. His opinions savored strongly of the pundit, even after he dropped the P. from...
...Seidel...
...fingers lifting undue moneys from the till. On a trip to the old country he nosed around the ship's boiler room, noted the indicator that counted the propeller revolutions, bethought him of a machine full of cog wheels which his barkeeps would operate every time they slid a seidel of Extra Pale across the mahogany. His machine, when a proper key was depressed, clanged a bell and punched a hole in a roll of paper. On good business days the roll might run to a scroll of 20 ft. John Henry Patterson, then running some coal mine stores, bought...
...listening to the sounds that issue from an Atwater Kent radio. And the sounds, too, would be different. In place of the comic stripper's unnamable babble, would ring the voices of Louise Homer, Anna Case, Edward Johnson, Mabel Garrison, Reinald Werrenrath, Frieda Hempel, the instruments of Toscha Seidel, Mischa Levitzki, the New York State Symphony Orchestra. These artists have already been engaged. Mr. Kent will pay them. The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. will do the broadcasting from WEAF and others of its stations. If phonograph companies consent, other artists now bound by contract will sing on Sunday nights...