Word: wilder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will enter the finals are: Carlton Green '30. D. D. Lloyd '31, M. F. Loewenstein '32. H. C. Friend '31, Abbot Peterson Jr. '30, Fessenden Wilder '32, J. L. Ware '30. W. H. Melish '31, G. E. Lodgen '32, and J. W. Norcross...
...further competition are: T. R. Berner '31, H. C. Friend '31, Carlton Green '30, P. G. Hoffman '32, D. D. Lloyd '31, M. F. Loewenstein '32,' G. N. Lodgin '32, J. W. Norcross '32, Abbot Peterson Jr. '30, P. C. Reardon '32, J. L. Ware '30, and Fassenden Wilder...
...never will be. But Author Dos Passos has made a bold bid for it. Certainly no U. S. novel has ever been more comprehensive than The 42nd Parallel, none has ever given a broader, more sweeping view of the whole country. At the opposite pole from Author Thornton Niven Wilder (TIME, Feb. 24) who writes neat, classical tales of other lands. Author Dos Passos unwinds a rapid, impressionistic, five-reel cinema of his own U. S., from 1900 to the War. Of more ambitious scope tha Cineman David Wark Griffith's The Birth of a Nation...
When Thornton Wilder wrote The Bridge of San Luis Rey it was read by more than 250,000 people. Most of them could not even pronounce the title correctly. Many are still arguing about what the story meant. Author Wilder's books are polished, scholarly, classical. Nevertheless, the U. S. acclaims him. The secret of Author Wilder's success is his style-one of the most readable styles ever produced by a U. S. writer. Highbrows call it limpid. Plain people call it pretty smooth...
...Story. The first part of The Woman of Andros, says Author Wilder, is based on the Andria, comedy of Latin Playwright Terence (circa 185-159 B. c.) which in turn was based on two lost plays by Greek Playwright Menander (342-291 B. c.). On Brynos, one of the lesser islands of the Greek Archipelago, lives Chrysis the courtesan, the woman from Andros. She is the scandal of the island, not because of her loose behavior, for she is both dignified and circumspect, but by her "airs and graces." She gives weekly banquets, to which she invites all the most...