Word: sherwood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annum in professional detachment: "I suppose that those who are dumb have never had their feelings and experience interpreted so clearly before as ... by Barry Benefield." He gives thanks that these "short turns" have been brought together out of various magazines, for he ranks them, with the work of Sherwood Anderson, Manuel Komroff and Ernest Hemingway, as "the most distinguished" of the past decade in U.S. tale-spinning...
...seems that young Mr. Hemingway, who works like a nailer over his own writing, with extraordinarily promising results, was going about his business in Paris, lunching frequently with Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos and even H. G. Wells, when a copy of Black Laughter by Sherwood Anderson reached him and caused him a bit of a pain. Perhaps other people were similarly affected by that earnest study of a dissatisfied newspaperman who abandoned his wife and wandered around until he got another man's wife, whose Negro servants laughed to see such sport. If so, here...
...Highness Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Skane, Crown Prince of Sweden?" ¶ Animated conversation ensued. Five minutes later Mrs. Coolidge in similar fashion received Her Royal Highness Princess Louise. Animated conversation ensued. Twenty minutes later the royal callers retired to the Swedish Legation. They had hardly arrived there when Colonel Sherwood A. Cheney, military aide to the President, followed them, to return the Crown Prince's call...
...Coolidge, Colonel Sherwood A. Cheney, military aide of the President, Mrs. Cheney, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston occupied a box at the afternoon performance of the Barnum & Bailey - Ringling Brothers circus in Washington...
...hotsy-totsy style there is the fantasy. "Rags Martin-Jones." full of the unbelievable tosh of which Fitzgerald was master. But there is something new, something un-Fitzgeraldian, which has an aroma of Sherwood Anderson. All the other stories in the book have it, now faint and thin, now strong and assailing. Perhap it is unfair to shout "Sherwood Anderson!" It may be that this is what happens to all young men who grow serious before they have grown truly wise. And so it may be that this is merely a phase in the growing-up process of which...