Word: sherwood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forward by Charles Sheldon, author of In His Steps?"What would happen if we took Christianity seriously?" Last week, in Des Moines, Iowa, this question was asked as never before by such efficient questioners as John R. Mott, potent Y. M. C. A. chief, and active George Sherwood Eddy, famed preacher. A campaign was organized, backed by the business men of Des Moines, to ask this question of every man, woman and child in the town; the week was called "Religious Life Emphasis Week...
These critical deriders, Miss Newman, in a brilliant volume that is at once an anthology and a book of criticism, disproves. She writes the short story's pedigree. She arranges in a line short stories selected from Petronius, Boccaccio, Voltaire, Hans Christian and Sherwood Anderson, Merimee, De Maupassant, Chekov, James Joyce, Henry James, Jules Laforgue, Paul Morand. Before each story is a brief critical preface describing the influences that shaped each writer, the influences that each set in motion, the significance of each in the line of heroic descent...
...authors could call forth such an aggregation of literary ladies and gentlemen as greeted Sherwood Anderson recently in Manhattan. The editor of The Dial was seen hobnobbing with the editor of The Saturday Rveiew, Louis Untermeyer, William Rose Benét, Floyd Dell and Louis Bromfield found themselves at the same table. Yet of all the unusual happenings of an unusual gathering, perhaps the most appealing to the sense of incongruity was the meeting (they did not actually meet) of H. L. Mencken and Stuart Pratt Sherman. These pen-enemies were in the same room, guests of the same host...
...Heard Representative Charles Manley Stedman of North Carolina, last surviving Confederate veteran in the House, deliver a eulogy of Robert E. Lee (on the anniversary of the General's birthday) at the close of which General Isaac R. Sherwood of Ohio, last surviving Union veteran in the House, rose and clasped the other's hand...
...division a close contest quickly developed between Harvard's representatives, Robert E. Sherwood and Heywood Broun, authors and critics, and Yale's stalwarts, Stephen Vincent Benet, famous author, and John Thomas, Armed with chalk, each contestant faced a blackboard, waving a paper of definitions in one hand and writing vigorously with the other. For a time it was anybody's match but Benet and Thomas spurted toward the end and won by several words in record breaking time...