Word: wilder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frederick Fessenden Wilder, of Brookline...
...LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER- Thornton Wilder-Yale Press & Coward-McCann...
When Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey burst into the best-seller lists, loud was the clucking from the critics' henroost. Drowned in the almost unanimous cackle of praise were a few deprecatory chirps, chiefly to the effect that it was a pity Author Wilder had not chosen a U. S. scene. When The Angel That Troubled the Waters and The Woman of Andros showed him still far from home, deprecatory chirps became louder. In The Long Christmas Dinner, a collection of six one-act plays no commercial producer would care to put on. Author...
...summary: LEVERETT BROWNE AND NICHOLS Pattison, l.e. r.e., Woodman, Whitchead Lohenberg, l.t. r.t., Reid, Good Carey, l.g. r.g., Cole, Driscoll Beardsley, c. c., Smith, Wilder Robbins, Levin, r.g. l.g., Dolon, Sleeper Oppenhelmer, r.t. l.t., Twitchell, Haskel Duffield, Hartridge, r.e. l.e., Appel, Gallagher Lupien, q.b. q.b., Wallace Lovejoy, l.h.b. l.h.b., Corwin Preston, r.h.b. r.h.b., Tigh, McGuire Dorman, f.b. f.b., Tenney...
...look like the Boy Who Made Good. But by junior year he was known and liked by everyone that counted in the college. He edited the Lit, left college to go to War, came back to take his degree with such friends as Stephen Vincent Benet. Thornton Niven Wilder, the late Briton Hadden...