Word: sylvia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Spencer's style is as surely feminine as was Elinor Wylie's in her novels, and, to pay a high compliment, it resembles considerably the fine writing of Sylvia Townsend Warner, eminently finds Lawrence a highly original and perfectly sincere genius without a prototype in literature. Perhaps it is sufficient to say that those who have a knowledge of Lawrence outside of the police court will find her observations among the most sympathetic and appreciative that have been written
...Summary: HARVARD '33 NEW BAMPTON Matursevitch, r.f. l.f., Hamilton Kimbrough, Schroeder, Davidson, l.f. r.f., Henriques Davidson, Upton, c. c., Bowes Hageman, r.g. l.g., Sylvia Reisner, l.g. r.g., Bowler
...play is properly farcical, although Playwrights Edith Fitzgerald and Robert Riskin have occasionally blundered into trying to make it something more. Its progress is rendered exceedingly pleasant by Sylvia Sidney, who has long lashes and a figure, as the fraudulent heroine. Dorothy Sands is trig and smart as her young-seeming mother. When asked by a stranger if she knows her own daughter, she replies: "Certainly, we were girls together...
...nine he wrote a pamphlet against Parnell; at 22 he left Ireland and the Church for good. After exile in Rome, Trieste, Zurich, he settled in Paris; supported life by teaching, directing plays; finished his first great opus, Ulysses. The book was published in Paris (1922) by Bookseller Sylvia Beach, spinster daughter of a Princeton, N. J., Presbyterian divine. Because of its obscene passages it is officially barred from England, from the U. S., but many a copy has been booklegged. A translation of Ulysses appeared last week in French. On its title page: "Translated by August Morel, assisted...