Word: wilder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week President Roosevelt appointed a man with a big name to a small job. The man: Oscar Wilder Underwood Jr., son of Alabama's late great Senator. The job: the Mexican General Claims Commission. This agency was created to settle damages incurred by U. S. citizens during Mexico's 1910-20 period of revolutions. Graduated from the University of Virginia, Oscar Underwood Jr. was in Paris as a law clerk for a U. S. firm when war broke out in 1914. Back home in 1916, he served on the Mexican border with his Alabama militia regiment, then...
...mountain trails and strolled in the great park. The couple were dogged constantly by Inspector Harry Evans of Scotland Yard who has dogged Mahatma Gandhi, spends much time dogging Cabinet Ministers. One night Prince George sent a long cablegram to King George at Balmoral Castle amid Scottish scenery even wilder than the Slovene. Next day Prince Paul and his wife Princess Olga, eldest sister of Princess Marina, chaperoned her and Prince George on an excursion out of the Balkans to the Salzburg music festival. A few hours before King George announced the engagement, Prince George appealed to Austrian newshawks: "Please...
...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 literature...
...Moscow work under the perpetual threat of losing their visas, and therefore their jobs. . . . The result is that news from Russia is a joke." The news Author Muggeridge retails (especially of the foreign hangers-on, cranks, visitors, converts) is also a joke, boisterously but bitterly told. Some of his wilder scenes remind the reader of Evelyn Waugh...
Abrams graduated from Long Branch High School, and in his Freshman year received the Wilder Prize for excellence in elementary German, and a Price Greenleaf Aid scholarship. Last March he was awarded the Charles and Julia Henry Fellowship, and will study next year at Cambridge University. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in the Junior Eight, and was a member of the track and wrestling squads...