Word: sherwoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long-term private venture is the 2,100-acre farm at Hillhouse, Miss., bought at $5 an acre by Reformer Sherwood Eddy, established as a colony last spring. On it, already farming 400 acres of cotton, are 24 "cropper"' families. Free to organize if they choose, they will receive "model contracts" for "furnish" at 5% interest per annum, will draw up their own self-government regulations, child labor laws. First half of the net return on the crop will go toward retiring the capital investment. The other half will be apportioned to the workers on the quality and quantity...
Other Pulitzer awards announced last night went to H.L. Davis for "Honey in the Horn," the best American novel, and to Robert Sherwood for his play "Idiot's Delight...
...Sherwood's views on world politics approximate those of a great body of contemporary writing men who habitually seek from their hearts instead of their heads the answers to pregnant questions arising outside their profession. As stated in the postscript, the lesson contained in Idiot's Delight is that ''by refusing to imitate the Fascists in their . . . hysterical self-worship and psychopathic hatred of others, we may achieve the enjoyment of peaceful life on earth rather than degraded death in the cellar." Happily, the solemn depths of this shopworn text are instinctively bridged by Mr. Sherwood...
Hokum of the highest type has long been the priceless stock-in-trade of Robert Emmet Sherwood. Like all fictionists, he has perfected a basic story which serves as the standard framework of his profitable product. In a Sherwood play, the boy practically never gets the girl for keeps. But the lovers generally have a few final poignant moments together. Before Hannibal went back to Carthage in The Road to Rome (1927), he spent one night with Amytis. Before Archduke Rudolf Maximilian von Habsburg was rushed out of Austria in Reunion in Vienna (1931), he was vouchsafed an evening with...
Born in New Rochelle, N. Y. 40 years ago, lanky Robert Sherwood went to War with the Black Watch, returned to Harvard, where his wounds and gassing did not prevent him from editing the Lampoon with such success that Vanity Fair hired him as co-editor with Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker. Hopeful contributors to Life recall the macabre, unsmiling laugh, the generous good nature with which from 1920 to 1928 Editor Sherwood personally received their effusions. When he wrote The Road to Rome, Sherwood quit journalism for good. He published in Variety last week a notice that Harry...