Word: canfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BOXFIRE-Dorothy Canfield-Harcourt, Brace (§2.50). Like many another champion of sweetness & light. Authoress Canfield cannot refrain from hitting her strawman adversary below the belt. In Bonfire her enthusiasm leads her into such palpable fouls that even her partisans may well shake their heads, deprecating these groin punches that mar an otherwise pretty exhibition of sparring. Anna Craft was district nurse in a little Vermont community where everyone knew everything about every one else. Anna was a realist but she had too many ideals for her own comfort. Chief ideal was her younger brother Anson, for whom...
...unpretentious little masterpiece as Lamb in His Bosom. After reading it, many who also read the Harper Prize Novel (The Fault of Angels, TIME, Aug. 28) may wonder why Lamb in His Bosom did not get the prize, may recall rumors that at least one of the judges (Dorothy Canfield. Sinclair Lewis, Harry Hansen) voted in its favor. Authoress Miller may miss the prize-money but Lamb in His Bosom can get along without any such endorsement: a good book needs no prize. The Carvers were Georgia crackers, pre-Civil War era. By "civilized" or "modern" standards, they were poor...
Died. Daisy Canfield Danziger Moreno, 45, California oil heiress, estranged wife of Film Actor Antonio Moreno: of injuries when her automobile ran over the edge of a cliff as her companion, one René Dussac, tried to brighten the headlights in a fog, turned them out instead; on Mulholland Highway, Hollywood...
...Benson, N. Y., Walter D. Canfield, 80, saw a deer, intently aimed, fired, fell dead as his bullet sped neatly into and killed the deer...
...Frame '32 and S. E. Davenport '34 advanced to the semi-finals of the Eastern Intercollegiate tennis tournament at Rye, New York, yesterday. Davenport and F. O. Canfield '32 then teamed to win their doubles match, thereby reaching the third round of play...