Word: sherwood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fiction DOOMSDAY - Warwick Deeping* - Knopf ($2.50). A Pandora of rural England. TOMORROW MORNING - Anne Parish - Harper ($2). A mother's sacrifice; tears, smiles, aspiration. TAR: A MIDWEST CHILDHOOD - Sherwood Anderson - Boni & Liveright ($3). A Huckleberry Finn in lower Ohio. THE PLUTOCRAT - Booth Tarking ton - Doubleday, Page ($2). An Illinois Caesar visits Carthage. CHILDREN OF THE MORNING - W. L. George- Putnam ($2). What became of 59 children stranded on a desert island. EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE - Felix Riesenberg - Har court, Brace ($2.50). Epical treatment of Manhattan, isle of psychlones. I'LL HAVE A FINE FUNERAL - Pierre La Maziere - Brentano...
...Memorial Prizes in short-story-writing for 1926. Wilbur Daniel Steele won $500 for 'Bubbles.' Dr. Blanche Colton Williams, the committee chairman, said that My Mortal Enemy, by Willa Cather had tied-for first prize but 'Bubbles' won because Miss Cather had published her tale as a short novel. Sherwood Anderson received second prize ($250) for 'Death in the Woods.' And to me they offered third prize ($100) for 'Between Worlds.' I refused to give permission for the reprinting of my story. The committee then fell back on 'Command,' a piece published last April in Sea Stories (monthly...
...authority, having had in them a lifelong interest. He can write about them, too, up to a certain incoherent point where the blissful inanity- or is it miracle?-of "just being alive" turns upon itself and leaves his lazy mind groping for words. Nowadays Huck Finn is called Sherwood Anderson...
...Midwest Childhood-Sherwood Anderson-Boni & Liveright ($3). BOYS, THEN AND Now-William Allen White-Macmillan...
...Robert E. Sherwood, 70, oldest living circus clown, much impressed President Coolidge when he said that he was the first performer to turn a handspring over seven horses and two elephants. The President then replied that he used to rise, when a boy, at 2:30 a. m. so he could go to the circus. Mr. Sherwood retaliated with the presentation of the book of his life: Here We Are Again...