Word: wescott
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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HARVARD MAINE Bassett, c.f. c.f., Lathrop Nugent, 2b. 2b., Wescott McGrath, s.s. c., Wells Donaghy, 3b. 1b., Hammond Prier; 1b. s.s., Plummer Ticknor, l.f. r.f., Corbett Gilligan or Todd, r.f. l.f., Airoldi Dudley or Batchelder, c. 3b., True Ketchum or MacHale, p.p., Perkins, Foster, Bangs...
...stores, with 50,000 separate items in stock, take pride in its accurate prescription work.* The expansion of such department drugstores and of the chains has led many a retail pharmacist to deal purely in drugs. Cleveland has Sherwood's; Manhattan, Timmermann's Apothecary; Baltimore, Hynson, Wescott & Dunning; Detroit, Seltzers; Atlanta, Marshall & Bell; San Francisco, Keck's Prescription Stores; Chicago, Wright & Lawrence. A development of the past few years is the prescription office, with its waiting room like a doctor's or dentist's. In small communities, despite the handiness of telephones and the ubiquity...
WITH his Harper Prize Novel, "The Grandmothers," Glenway Wescott sprang into literary prominence. With the remains of that impetus he now gives us a collection of short stories. Some of them were written before the prize novel, some after. At all events, they somehow, fail to hit the mark. The opening tale, from which the collection draws its name, is an intimation of a desire of the author's to get away from the middle western background and attitude which featured his novel. In the future he will seek new fields to exploit and will let alone the Middle West...
Somehow, there is an awkwardness about Mr. Wescott's style which mars the effects he strives to produce. The sentences are too involved, and far too often there is a decided incoherence. One of the stories, called "Adolescence," seems in a fair way to present certain observations on that state when it is mangled beyond hope of success by the roundabout method of presentation. Another, "Wedding March" by name, comes considerably nearer to achieving...
...flat emotions; a young musician's painful maladjustment on returning home from the greater world (Paris left-bank); a young girl's brooding over an implied sadistic horror-these are subject to Author Wescott's youthful scrutiny. He has a marked gift for creating atmospheric effects, and a keen sense of human drama ("In a Thicket," "Like a Lover," "The Sailor"); but, immature in his aping, he caters too much to Proust and Joyce...