Word: tinkers
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Professor Chauncey Brewster Tinker, Sanford Professor of English Literature at Yale, will give a course on the English painters of the 17th and 18th centuries, for the Department of Fine Arts at Harvard during the second half of the academic year 1929-30. He will be on sabbatical leave from Yale during the whole of that academic year...
Professor Tinker graduated from Yale in 1899 and, after three years of graduate study, he taught English at Bryn Mawr for one year. He became an instructor in English at Yale in 1903 and was elevated to the rank of assistant professor in 1908. Since 1913 he has held the Emily Sanford chair in the department of English Literature. During the War he served as a captain of the Military Intelligence Division of the General Staff...
Professor Tinker is an authority on the Johnson period of English history. He edited the recent edition of the letters of James Boswell which was printed in 1924. Other works by Professor Tinker include, "Dr. Johnson and Fanny Burney," "The Salon and English Letters," and the well known biography, "Young Boswell...
Novels--The Gypsy, W. B. Trites. All for Nothing, J. D. Beresford. Deluge, Fowler Wright. Wintersmoon, Hugh Walpole, Claire Ambler, Booth Tarkington, Giants in the Earth, O. E. Rolvaag. Etched in Moonlight, James Stephens, Red Rust, Cornelia J. Cannon, Julius--"A Gentleman With a Duster" Tinker's Leave, Maurice Baring. Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather. Gallions Reach, H. M. Tomlinson. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder. Carry on, Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse. Leave It to Psmith, P. G. Wodehouse. No Other Tiger, A. E. W. Mason. The Crook's Shadow, J. Jefferson Farjeon. The Portrait Invisible...
Many people thought Author Tarkington was exaggeratedly ironic when he made Mr. Tinker cry, "What an ad!" upon seeing the Rock of Gibraltar; when he made Mr. Tinker cry out upon the sewers of Algiers and say: "Why, the United States Army ought to come over here and clean it up!" Mr. Tinker boasted how much finer his home town was than oldtime Timgad. Mr. Tinker rode through Africa on a camel, like a barbaric Roman potentate, "raining money like some great careless thundercloud charged with silver and gold and pouring them down...