Word: wyndham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul DeB. DeGive '34, goalie and only junior to start against Yale in the last series, who was elected to captain this year's icemen. But five others who saw service in the Blue tilts will make up a complete sextet of experienced players. A forward line of Wyndham L. Hasler '34, Benjamin Beale '34, and William A. Lincoln '35, is returning, to be backed by Elmer F. Dow '34 and Francis H. Gleason '34, on the defense...
...past four years Sir Charles Edward ("Smithy") Kingsford-Smith, Australia's air hero, has been making records between England and Australia. Last week he made a new one: 7 days, 5 hr. At Wyndham, western Australia, he dragged his weary frame from the cockpit of his small monoplane Miss Southern Cross, gave newshawks a gloomy account of as miserable a week as he ever spent. Said Sir Charles...
...Wyndham Lewis is brilliant. He has a pointed, a trenchant style; and he has written one novel, which does not fall short of greatness. "Tarr." And with his equipment, he should not waste his time flying Remarque or Sassoon, if they are really as insignificant as he claims...
...Riverhead" is a novel both sensitive and powerful. It has profited by the battles waged by D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and Wyndham Lewis for the freedom of literature; and shown that the novel has at last come into its peaceful own. "Riverhead" will probably be read and enjoyed, as the novels of Thackeray and Jane Austin are today, when most of its contemporaries are forgotten
...Spectator nominates a Worst Book of the Month: Chaucer, by G. K. Chesterton; inaugurates an English Men of Letters Series by reprinting from the London Daily Mail an advertisement written by D. B. Wyndham Lewis. Excerpt: ''Every time a fairy sneezes, a new Lyons' Swiss Roll is born, and every time a fairy trips over a bluebell, his remark breaks into a million pieces. Some of them turn into Nippys. . . . The jam is very whimsy and is made of fruit which has been peeped at by rabbits very early in the morning...