Word: mccutcheon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fourmile: Won by Harvard ( Watters, McCutcheon, Chapin, Tibbetts) ; Columbia, second; Cornell, third...
...With the exception of George Barr McCutcheon, those writing for the current (March) issue of McClure's are not well known. Their names: Ledyard M. Bailey, Orville M. Kile, Donald McGibeny, Alain Gerbault. Edmund Snell, Captain Frank Hurley, Ethel Comstock Bridgman, Margaret Wheeler Ross, Frederick A. Thompson, Mary Shannon, Major "Tom" Vigors, Zoe Beckley, John Randolph Hornady, Harry Benjamin, M.D., Anonymous, Franklin K. Sprague...
...from Brodney's. A comprehensive ignorance, possibly pardonable, of the works of George Barr McCutcheon prevents comparison herein of his novel and this resultant picture. His curiously exotic imagination has taken a group of characters to a strange island rich in jewel mines. Dying, the owners left a will which would return the treasures to the natives unless their son and daughter married. Fortuitously involved are a beautiful foreign Princess and one Hollingsworth Chase, American adventurer. The walking delegate of the Natives' Union, local No. 1, argues that the matter may best be settled by massacring the whole...
...told by a gipsy the day he was born. She promised him all the court-cards in old Miss Lachesis' desk?but said he would be hung before he was 30. The prophecy was fulfilled, and the ingenious manner of its working out forms the theme of a typical McCutcheon thriller...
...interesting to see together three of the gayest spinners of romantic yarns. Lloyd Osborne, the son-in-law and collaborator of Robert Louis Stevenson, florid, tall, grey; George Barr McCutcheon, always jovial and kindly; Farnol, shorter than either of them, quite unimpressive until he bubbles over with some sudden enthusiasm for an anecdote...