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...WILFRID SMITH...
JOHNSON (Lionel) Religious Poems. With a Preface by Wilfrid Meynell. Scarce...
...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...
...cast, Wilfrid Walter undoubtedly received the most favorable attention last night: justly, for his Benedick was a triumph, a superb concoction of nonchalance...
Members of Parliament were incensed at the Bishops' action. Laborite Holford George Wilfrid Knight promised to take up the matter at once with Prime Minister MacDonald, to make the Bishops "set an example to the nation of obedience to law and respect for the sanctity of a contract...