Word: woolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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REMINISCENCES (213 pp.) - Maxim Gorky-Translated by S. S. Koteliansky, Leonard Woolf and others - Dover...
Fiorello LaGuardia was back in New York's City Hall, looking natural but a little handsomer than life (see cut). The city had appropriated $2,500 for the portrait by New York Times Artist-Interviewer S. J. Woolf. If the art commission approves the picture, the Little Flower will be the first ex-mayor to hang in the Hall while still alive...
...more readers to appreciate her peculiar talent. She is one of the most knowing and subtle of modern writers, working usually in muted tones, off-colors, remotely gross or secret moods. At her best she is delicate, witty, adroit, a genuine craftsman in the sense that Virginia Woolf was a genuine craftsman. At worst she is simply an unsuccessful craftsman-wasting her skill on an obvious pattern, drawing her lines so fine that a reader is not sure what she is trying to show...
Sunday, Boston in the dimout, the Patagonian lakes, Virginia Woolf, Paul Valery. It has whimsy and charm, but it represents a hybrid culture which Victoria Ocampo has not shed...
...oculist, perhaps; but not by Webster. On p. 1827 Reader Woolf will find "persnickety" as a variant of "pernickety...