Word: sherwoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been able to chart her titanic course through the letters of our time. She is herself inimical to critics, and one of her strongest aphorisms insists that the artist stands in need of appreciation, but never of criticism. This has been sufficient to deter many of the faculty; Sherwood Anderson, most apt among her pupils, stylizes, and Ernest Hemingway, imitates, her. In "Axel's Castle," Mr. Edmund Wilson makes some attempt to isolate her peculiar position in the Symbolist movement; he quotes, he explains a poem. But her personal development glimmers through his words with an agonizing inconstancy that...
...Delaware River Bridge; in Philadelphia. Died. Horace Brisbin Liveright, 46, Manhattan publisher and stage producer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A onetime bond salesman, he, with Albert Boni, formed Boni & Liveright, Inc., which later became Liveright Inc., now bankrupt. Some of his authors: Eugene O'Neill, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, : Emil Ludwig, Robinson Jeffers, Ben ; Hecht, Hendrik Van Loon. Died. Michael Joseph ("Turkey Mike") Donlin, 57, actor, oldtime baseballer; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. He was the strutting, clowning, umpire-baiting captain of the New York Giants team which, with Christy Mathewson, "Iron Man Joe" McGinnity and Roger Bresnahan...
...Federal grand jury adjourned without indicting runaway James John ("Jimmy") Walker for income tax evasion. For three months Federal District Attorney George Zerdin Medalie, a Republican leftover, had been investigating the onetime Tammany mayor's finances. The grand jury had questioned Russell Sherwood, Walker's fiscal agent, nine dif- ferent times without eliciting sufficient evidence to charge a crime. Sherwood stood his ground on the time-honored formula that to answer questions might tend to incriminate him. Resurrection of the Walker case would have been a troublesome black eye for Tammany's campaign...
...ponderous slopes have been visited by no picnic-parties; the journey is too far afield for weekday trippers; but some few fellow-writers have ventured into her shade and have returned with enthusiastic and grateful tales. Ernest Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Carl Van Vechten, supposedly sensible and certainly popular authors, have sat admiringly at her feet. When Hemingway was 23, just married, and learning to write in Paris, he went to Gertrude Stein with a letter of introduction from Sherwood Anderson. He sat, listened, looked at her "with passionately interested" eyes, returned again & again. She read and criticized...
...Stein did the driving, with fair success. (She never learned how to back very well.) The War over, they settled down again to Art. By this time Gertrude Stein's Three Lives (published in 1909) had given her a reputation among young U. S. writers. "Gertrude Stein and Sherwood Anderson are very funny on the subject of Hemingway. . . . Hemingway lad been formed by the two of them and they were both a little proud and a little ashamed of the work of their minds. . . . They admitted that Hemingway was yellow, he is. Gertrude Stein insisted, just .ike the flatboat...