Word: canfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Monica Dickens, beauteous, 23-year-old great-granddaughter of class-conscious Charles Dickens, went to work as a cook to get material for a book on belowstairs life. President Cass Canfield of Harper & Bros, announced he had bought the book (One Pair of Hands), gaffed: "She has an easy pen and the same interest in the lower half of the people that Dickens was so well known...
...adults for each 1,000 youths (16 to 25), but today youth is outnumbered 2,200 to 1,000 and by 1960 it will be outnumbered 3,000 to 1,000. A Commission report* blamed this situation on a decline in "fertility among American women." Commission Member Dorothy Canfield Fisher dissented testily: "Why pick on the women? It takes two for that...
SEASONED TIMBER-Dorothy Canfield -Harcourt, Brace...
...Dorothy Canfield lives in and writes about Vermont, a sensible State where a lady's hat, to be up to the moment, needs only to be a decent shelter for the head. One might expect Author Canfield, therefore, to be impervious to literary fashion as well. But so many tucks, ribbons and feathers have been incorporated into the novel since she last wrote one (Bonfire, 1933), that she has felt it necessary to come up to date. The result sits on her head at a rakish angle, tapers to a giddy point. The angle: fascism is dangerous. The point...
Some years ago, Dorothy Canfield, in her nonliterary self (Mrs. John Redwood Fisher), served on Vermont's State Board of Education, found that small village schools were so hard up for chalk, books, blackboards, maps, to say nothing of gymnasiums and decently paid teachers, that they would gladly pawn even their academic freedom for a little ready cash. This, at any rate, is the premise of Seasoned Timber...