Word: sherwood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SHERWOOD EDDY, 56, Manhattan; Y.M.C.A. secretary for Asia. Like Bruce Barton he is no clergyman...
...EARLY WORM?Robert Benchley (Illustrated by Gluyas Williams)?Holt ($2). Funnyman Benchley's creek of comedy has by no means yet run dry. He babbles gently on in parody of Sherwood Anderson, H. G. Wells, Calvin Coolidge, Thomas Beer, polar expeditions, founding a night club, interviewing celebrities, solving crimes, stabilizing francs. His method of reductio ad imbecillum is to expound a subject in its simplest terms, putting caricaturist's emphasis on one or two superficial details. Example: "According to Dr. Max Hartmann . . . there is no such thing as absolute sex. If 60% of your cells are masculine you rate...
...would be impossible, also unnecessary since one can do much worse than go out immediately to buy a private copy. There is no telling at what unexpected moment it may become valuable. Especially if the Boston Censorship Board take a peek at "A Ghost Story, in the manner of Sherwood Anderson...
...Michael Arlen, impossible yet plausible, stunning and elusive. At least the author has realized the truth of O. Henry's maxim that Bohemia is merely a land we do not live in, and has created appropriate characters, which are a relief after picayune sensationists such as James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson, and others, who think themselves realists for showing us the disagreeable things about disagreeable people in disjointed sentences. And no one would object to Venetia Vardon having loved twice except the Boston censors, who have banned the book. I am afraid that Swift, Fielding, Defoe and many of our other...
...Millay does not destroy the illusion which her henchmen and harpweavers have created is small compensation for the fact that Mr. Mencken resembles a well-fed lodge-member. Colonel Lawrence's profile is sufficiently romantic, Ring Lardner's face is tinged with the traditional gloom of the comedian, and Sherwood Anderson, fortunately, gives an impression not incongruous with his writing. But these are exceptions. They cannot counterbalance D. H. Lawrence's beard nor Ford Maddox Ford's chins. And all the world now knows that the authority on behaviorism in blondes is herself a jet brunette...