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Word: wilfrid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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JOHNSON (Lionel) Religious Poems. With a Preface by Wilfrid Meynell. Scarce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LARGE VARIETY TO SUIT ALL TASTES | 12/7/1932 | See Source »

...fastened on them with a bulldog grip. Maid in Waiting began it; Flowering Wilderness continues what bids fair to be an over-lengthy serial. Dinny Cherrell, too young to wed in the first book, makes a bold bid for it this time. Unfortunately the swain she picks, one Wilfrid Desert, is far from being the kind of vertebra that fits into England's backbone. First and bad enough, he is a poet. To judge from a fragment which Creator Galsworthy quotes, Poet Desert rates every ounce of obloquy he gets: Into foul ditch each dogma leads. Cursed be superstitious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fair-Haired Carpeteer | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

...cast, Wilfrid Walter undoubtedly received the most favorable attention last night: justly, for his Benedick was a triumph, a superb concoction of nonchalance...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: SHAKESPEARE PLAYED TO THE HILT | 3/25/1930 | See Source »

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