Word: wyck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Aug. 30, p. 31, you close the obituary of Stuart Sherman by naming American critics "left" to us. An omission of note is the name of Van Wyck Brooks...
Famed John Albert Macy of Manhattan and Van Wyck Brooks of Westport, Conn., qualify eminently as leading literary critics of the U. S.; were omitted from the list published in connection with the death of Critic Stuart Pratt Sherman (TIME, Aug. 30, BOOKS) because TIME had prime reference to magazine and newspaper practitioners. Onetime associate editor of Youth's Companion (1901-09), onetime literary editor of the Boston Herald (1913-14), and of the Nation (1922-23), Critic Macy now devotes most of his efforts to writing books. Likewise Critic Brooks, since his brief editorial career...
Jonkheer Dr. H. van Asch van Wyck, Charge d'Affaires of The Netherlands...
According to C. B. Van Wyck, athletic recorder for the University, 854 Freshmen out of a class of 950 have already signed up. Of these 217, more than one-fifth of the class, have chosen tennis as their form of exercise. Crew has attracted 162 men, besides 71 who have elected to row in single shells. Football has claimed 135 men, and lacrosse is on the short end, only four Freshmen candidates having reported...
There are those admirers of Miss Sinclair who recall the days of The Divine Fire and Mary Olivier with regret and find in them their favorite work of this novelist; but, for me, the foolery of Mr. Waddington of Wyck, the perfection of detail in Ann Severn and the Fieldings, the devastating character portrayal of A Cure of Souls seem more intensely original, more characteristic of her and of her time...