Word: wilderness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bridge of St. Luis Rey-Wilder...
Concerning THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder, (Albert and Charles Boni, New York, 1928. $2.50), it has all been said so well not to say often. One hundred and thirty thousand in four months, eleven thousand sold in England, hailed by a professor of English in the University of Alabama as a classic, not equalled since "Ethan Frome' and 'Jurgen,'" talked of, written about, sometimes read. The price of the first editions has already jumped to $20 thanks to the efforts of Messrs. Phelps and Hansen, Mr. Wilder, we learn, is still holding down his academic post...
...Start construction on the new plant during the week of Commencement, 1928. Edward Wilder...
...BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY- Thornton Wilder-A. & C. Boni ($2.50). "On Friday noon, July the 20th, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below." The five people were: The Marquesa de Montemayor and Pepita, her companion, Esteban, the brother of Manuel, Uncle Pio, and Don Jaime the son of the actress whom he had loved and made famous. Now why had a bridge upon whose miraculous high path everyone in Peru had stepped at one time or another postponed its decay to include these particular people in its destruction...
...list of nominations which will appear on the ballot is as follows: for President, Winslow Carlton '29, C. McK. Norton '29, E. W. Sexton '29, and W. H. Wilder '29; for Vice-President, W. T. Emmet '29, J. D. Gatsos '29, F. S. Grant '29, T. G. Moore '29, J. L. Reid '29, and D. C. Shaw '29; for Secretary-Treasurer, Hulburd Johnston '29, John Parkinson '29, and H. F. Schwarz...