Word: wescott
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...title Author Wescott implies that he is finished with his native haunts as literary copy it is just as well, since Wisconsin appears to him in unrelieved grey?a monotone of ugliness. And so do the people. Not a one of them has charm or gentleness or pleasant impulses; and the thoughts of each, tortuously analyzed, hark back to a frustration or forward with resignation and despair. Typical in the collection of stories are the drab blunderings of Amelia and her loutish husband ("The Runaways") who weary of their sterile farm, and burn the house for the insurance. Too scatter...
...found therein the more loneliness because her husband, passionately devoted to their small son, needed her less than ever. There was still Zanti, of the little curiosity shop, who dispensed philosophy to Janet much as he did, volumes ago (Fortitude, published 1913), to Peter Wescott. There was Peter himself, young and successful novelist. There was old John Beamister-Zoffany Club at a quarter to one precisely-who approved Janet's quiet dignity. More important, there was the Duke, benevolently white-haired, who knew the bitterness of Janet's love for his son. But none of these were enough...
...clique which included Glenway Wescott (author of The Grandmothers, The Apple of the Eye). In 1922 after winning the Fisk Prize for poetry, she published her verses, Under the Tree, but not until she published a year ago The Time of Man, a novel dealing with the country people of the south, did critics realize her as an important and highly individual expert novice in U. S. letters...
Died. Judge John Wesley Wescott, 78, onetime Attorney General of New Jersey, who nominated Woodrow Wilson for the presidency at the Democratic National Convention in 1912 and again in 1916; in Haddonfield, N. J.; of heart disease. He was uncle of Irving Pisher, famed economist...
Readers of history, biography and novels who wait for Mr. O'Brien's annual pronouncement to see what has been what in the short-story field, will applaud three rising young men this year, Barry Benefield, Nathan Asch, Glenway Wescott. The hardy perennials are welcome: Sherwood Anderson, Konrad Bercovici, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Ring Lardner, Wilbur Daniel Steele and Elinor Wylie. Others: Sandra Alexander, Bella Cohen, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Rudolph Fisher, Walter Gilkyson, Manuel Komroff, Robert Robinson, Evelyn Scott, May Stanley, Milton Waldman, Barrett Willoughby...