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...Coolidge, Colonel Sherwood A. Cheney, military aide of the President, Mrs. Cheney, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston occupied a box at the afternoon performance of the Barnum & Bailey - Ringling Brothers circus in Washington...
...hotsy-totsy style there is the fantasy. "Rags Martin-Jones." full of the unbelievable tosh of which Fitzgerald was master. But there is something new, something un-Fitzgeraldian, which has an aroma of Sherwood Anderson. All the other stories in the book have it, now faint and thin, now strong and assailing. Perhap it is unfair to shout "Sherwood Anderson!" It may be that this is what happens to all young men who grow serious before they have grown truly wise. And so it may be that this is merely a phase in the growing-up process of which...
...SHERWOOD ANDERSON and H. L. Mencken pound the desk with defiant Middlewestern fists. There is none like Dreiser--a Gulliver among literary Lilliputians! they bellow. Everyone must take a week's vacation and read "An American Tragedy"; nothing short of a colossal achievement. Simultaneously other critics of an equal eminence rise in anger from their wrath on the labored, Teutonic, Kolossal opus. Written over a period over ten years, this novel, hurriedly completed in a few months, scarcely re-touched, and condensed not at all, has been published in a rough, raw, dull, and barbaric fulsomeness. Let us regurgitate, they...
...Anderson-Mencken school or their antagonists too seriously. As Voltaire once phrased it, "let us keep to the middle of the garden path"; but not too strictly, for it is rather pleasant to walk on the controversial borders. And while we are about it, let us ape Mr. Sherwood Anderson's jerky unpremeditated style with about the same degree of accuracy that Dreiser displays in his grammar...
...choice of interpretations is sufficiently catholic. Sherwood Anderson leads the American writers treated; Henry James comes last. Of foreign writers the names of Anatole France, Joseph Conrad and John Donne suggest a diversity of patients. Among the poets in the doctor's waiting-room are Blake, Keats and Poe. Weber and Fields are not too low nor is Eleanora Duse too exalted for attention. Among the best studies are those of Brigham Young, Theodore Roosevelt, Sir William Osier, James J. Corbett and George Cohan. Only a hint of the complete list may be gathered from these names...