Word: wescott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reading that of May 15, 1936, on the U. S. Balance of International Payments. Like TIME, it is clear, curt, complete; essential reading for the alert citizen who wants to know the facts. The boost for Foreign Policy Association is merely incidental: I am not a member. RALPH W. WESCOTT...
SUNS Go DOWN-Flannery Lewis- Macmillan ($2). Excellent characterization, recalling the tender humor of Glenway Wescott's The Grandmothers, of the author's doughty, imaginative, 90-year-old grandmother, "the first decent white woman in the Comstock District." A vivid piece of Americana covering the era of Virginia City, Nev., from its fabulous boom days of 40,000 families to its present ghostly desertion...
...smart or portentous figures of the last 20 years. Some of those present: Sherwood Anderson, James Branch Cabell, Willa Gather, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Evelyn Scott, Edith Wharton, Glenway Wescott, Thornton Wilder. Readers may raise puzzled eyebrows at lesser-known names: Carl Becker, Albert Halper, Eleanor Rowland Wembridge. Nowhere to be found are such names as Upton Sinclair, Conrad Allen, Hervey Allen, Louis Bromfield, Walter Lippmann, T. S. Stribling. Looking back on his collection Anthologist Van Doren proudly says: "American...
Edward Noyes Wescott, author of "David Harum" died before his book was published and consequently could not enjoy the material benefits of being the writer of the smash hit of the early 1900's. Members of another generation will be able to remember when several of the lines in the motion pictures were the sayings and by-words...
...Rotarian. Can't you. he said, make it 80%. No. said she regretfully. I can't.'' Of Ezra Pound her criticism is even more cavalier: "She said he was a village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not. not." Glenway Wescott "at no time interested Gertrude Stein. He has a certain syrup but it does not pour." But she thinks F. Scott Fitzgerald "will be read when many of his well known contemporaries are forgotten...