Word: wyck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BRANDED SPY MURDERS?Van Wyck Mason?Crime Club ($2). G-2's Captain North sees four murders, averts war, foils the Red menace, in three days of skillful espionage...
SKETCHES IN CRITICISM-Van Wyck Brooks-Button ($3). Commonsensible commentary...
Miss Cornelia M. van Asch van Wyck, world president of the Y. W. C. A., arrived in New York last week. Mem ber of a famed Dutch family (her father was a Deputy in the States-General, two of her brothers are in the diplomatic service), she helped organize the Dutch na tional Y. W. C. A. in 1920, headed it from 1926 until 1930 when she became the first Continental president of the World's Council...
...LIFE or EMERSON?Van Wyck Brooks?Button...
...Author. Critic Van Wyck Brooks, born in Plainfield, N. J. in 1886, since his graduation from Harvard has been associated with the Doubleday, Page and Century publishing houses; has associate-edited The Freeman and the first American Caravan. Ill health forced him to desert the Caravan. He lives with his wife and two sons in Westport, Conn. Generally conceded one of America's few serious critics, Critic Brooks takes as the theme of all his work the peculiar opportunities and disabilities of U. S. literati. Of his study of Emerson, he says: "What I wished to convey was a convincing...