Word: wharton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. It is not unjust to imply that for Mrs. Wharton's characters the most dangerous weapon of destruction would be a paper cutter. They are fragile figures which resemble" those outlined in fashion magazines for the socially ambitious to cut out. The narrative, as usual in Mrs. Wharton's books, is pursued with neo-Jamesian traps and snares, rather than less subtle hounds and horn. Her methods have not kept pace with her times, her subject matter, her ambition as social observer. Narration by implication, which seemed wise and successful in The House of Mirth, has, after...
...title Mrs. Wharton means to suggest that her characters, in their social security, have scarcely realized the ruin they so narrowly escaped. Mrs. Wharton too, basking on the literary peak where she has longtime lived aloof, gives no sign of realizing that she is a distinguished anachronism...
Mayor E. C. Romfh arched an eyebrow at City Manager Frank Wharton. "We regret," said the City Manager, "that all of the registration booths have been allotted...
...Advocate announced last night the election of four men to the board, Barrett Williams '28 of Boston and H. M. Parker '30 of New York are the new members of the editorial board, while Wharton Lowell '28 of Louisville, Ky., and B. McC. Starks '28. also of Louisville, have been added to the business staff...
Died. Edward L. Bader, 52, Mayor of Atlantic City, N. J.; in the Atlantic City Hospital, following an appendicitis operation.** He was in turn newsboy (1887), dental student, veterinary student, financial student (Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania), professional footballer (1902), large scale garbage collector, contractor (rebuilt the famed Steel Pier), mayor...