Word: wyck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...puzzle. The leading national book-review weekly, its eminence was made less impressive by the fact that it was the only one in the field. Although now & then the Saturday Review took a flyer in an extended literary appraisal, with articles by Critic John Chamberlain, H. L. Mencken, Van Wyck Brooks, as a rule its 21,000 readers could expect: ten or twelve pages of reviews each week; a yes & no editorial about the book clubs, best sellers, proletarian novels, modern poetry or some current literary subject; Christopher Morley's The Bowling Green, in which the author ranged from...
...vehement it sometimes seemed apoplectic, Editor De Voto raged at U. S. intellectuals, accusing them en masse of "misrepresenting" the country. He passionately championed the cause of the Italian sociologist, Pareto. His critical haymakers included swings at Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Marx, reformers and believers in planned societies, Van Wyck Brooks, progressive education. With enthusiasms just as intense as his animosities, he called Robert Frost "the finest American poet, living or dead," raged at critics who did not agree. The back pages of the Saturday Review continued to be given over to literary double-crostic puzzles and the meandering pleasantries...
Recipient of the Signet Society medal for achievement in the arts, awarded at the Society's annual dinner on Saturday, was Van Wyck Brooks...
With the citation, "Van Wyck Brooks: Vigorous author, evocative critic of the America of Mark Twain, Henry James, and Ralph Waldo Emerson; examiner of New England roots and exhibitor of her finest flowers," the second of these annual awards was made...
...combination of certain members of the Committee, and managers from the various halls will undertake the organization of teams from groups of dormitories in the Yard and the planning of schedules. Dr. Clarence B. Van Wyck, Secretary of the Department of Physical Education, has said that participation in these inter-dormitory contests will count as credit toward compulsory exercise...