Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barry is a product of what was called the Yale Literary Renaissance, a microscopic affair which began vigorously with Stephen Vincent Benet, John Farrar, Thornton Wilder et al. but was soon washed from the campus in an ocean of afternoon tea. The War took Philip Barry to the U. S. Embassy at London because weak eyes kept him out of military service. The desire to write plays took him back to the 47 Workshop. The need to make a living temporarily shunted him into the advertising business (McCann-Erickson, Inc.). When he heard that The Youngest, his first professionally produced...
...another marches in to take up the burden, for while much is taken much still abides. Back Bay trails off to the Vincent Club where "us girls are getting up a show." The last straggler has returned to Cambridge in a belated effort to gird up his loins. Harvard's world has changed, it has gone to work. The Mid-years have advanced upon the Yard...
...dreary period for him. But what can he do, what can anyone do? The Vagabond will take refuge in poetry "for God he knows and what must be, must be." He like the others must hitch up his belt, try not to think too much of the Vincent Club, and "say neither it is good, nor it is bad; but only it is here...
...committee borrowed from its chairman $122,000, bringing the Raskob loans up to $345,250; from County Trust Co. of New York (of which Mr. Smith is board chairman) $835.318 largely to refinance earlier obligations there. Individuals contributed $68,781 during the year. Largest amount: $25.000 from Vincent Astor, owner of much real estate in Tammany town...
...every church, the Pope pontificates her praise. The poor man can feel as did the poor man who willed his soul to "his mooste blessed moder, Saint Mary Virgyn, Quene of Heven Lady of the Worlde and Emporesse of Helle." The great man, too, can cry, with the great Vincent de Beauvais: "O Lady, Lady, if thou fail thy servants, who will succor them...