Word: sherwoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brain Trust fame in many a Washington drawing room-the tongue of Jerome Frank. That restless young Jewish lawyer-who was a brain truster to Mayor Dever's Chicago reform administration; whose early drawing room sallies were in the homes of such Midwest literary liberals as Floyd Dell, Sherwood Anderson, Harriet Munroe; whom Communist Emma Goldman calls "Jerry"; whose shrewdness won him a place in the Manhattan law firm of Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy; whose brilliant articles on judicial psychology led him to friendship with Felix Frankfurter -was like a can of TNT dropped into a Washington drawing room...
Robert E. Sherwood's "Queen's Husband" has been chosen for the first production of the now Freshman Dramatic Society, it was announced yesterday by Harry B. Sanderson '38, publicity director, following approval by University officials...
...Petrified Forest (by Robert Sherwood; Gilbert Miller, Leslie Howard, Arthur Hopkins, producers). When, in the first 30 minutes of a show, four men appear carrying sub-machineguns, a spectator may be pretty sure that something fairly exciting is going to happen. When, 30 minutes before the curtain is to be rung down, the hero makes an arrangement with one of the gunmen to kill him before they leave, a spectator may be forgiven for twisting his program completely out of shape...
Starting off with the first situation and carrying the second to an odd conclusion, Playwright Sherwood has magnificently presented one tumultuous afternoon and evening in a roadside service station in the far West. Apparently just as much at home in the Black Mesa Bar-B-Q as he was in Hannibal's tent (The Road to Rome) or post-War Austria (Reunion in Vienna), Playwright Sherwood has given a humorous and dramatic three-dimensional panorama of the hamburg and gas-peddling Maples, their young, ex-fullback helper, the rich and insufferable Chisholms who drive up in their Duesenberg limousine...
Whether or not he has a "style," Sherwood Anderson's style of writing-pondering, whittling, awkwardly echolalic-is all his own. No Swank is trademarked on every page. With the late great Chekhov, Anderson shares the faculty of the truthful blurt: "Almost always, when one of your friends gets kicked down stairs, you're glad. It is a nasty fact, but it is a truth." No matter how sarcastic he feels, he cannot be nasty about it: "There is too much of this bunk about a man having a mind because he has read the classics...