Word: thornton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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News comes to us from a former CRIMSON president now studying at the University of London, that neither of the two books that head the list of English best-sellers is written by an Englishman. One of course, is Thornton Wilder's "Bridge of San Luis Rey." The Lawrenceville teacher seems to have won quite a following abroad with the restrained writing of his philosophical novel. "The Bridge", however, is not the first in the eyes of Englishmen. That honor goes to "The Ugly Duchess", Feuchtwanger's historical romance which is among the first five on this side...
Concerning THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder, (Albert and Charles Boni, New York, 1928. $2.50), it has all been said so well not to say often. One hundred and thirty thousand in four months, eleven thousand sold in England, hailed by a professor of English in the University of Alabama as a classic, not equalled since "Ethan Frome' and 'Jurgen,'" talked of, written about, sometimes read. The price of the first editions has already jumped to $20 thanks to the efforts of Messrs. Phelps and Hansen, Mr. Wilder, we learn, is still holding down his academic post...
...noise at cities, it was a symbol of Vermont's recovery from her catastrophe of last autumn, the first through train over the State's main artery of transportation, the Central Vermont R. R. Among the officials who made speeches and took bows was Sir Henry W. Thornton, president of the Canadian National Railways, which put its assets at the Central Vermont's disposal to rebuild washed-out trestles, culverts, hill-shoulders...
Score, Harvard 12, Nichols Club 2. First period--Harvard 6, Nichols Club 1. Second period--Harvard 3, Nichols Club 1. Third period--Harvard 3, Nichols Club 0. Goals, Giddens 3, Howard 2, Holbrook 2, Saltonstall, Tudor, Wetmore, Lakin, A. Bieglow, Gowans, Walsh. Referee, Thornton. Time three 20 minute periods...
Thayer--Pender, Thornton v. Wambaugh--Fisher, Jackson