Word: seidel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble finding any. Few people had ever said anything good about Pegler, who so seldom has anything good to say about anyone else. Finally, at the syndicate's prodding, Pegler remembered that "an old geezer named 'Seidlitz"-meaning, as everybody knew, of course, Literary Critic Henry Seidel Canby-had once cast him a few pearls of praise...
Last week ex-Admirer Canby was formally admitted to the Pegler gallery of melted waxworks. Wrote Peg: "Henry Seidel Canby [is] an antediluvian crud who has been mewling away about the art of writing for the last 2,000 years, and pompously presuming to toss compliments to his betters, such as and specifically me." Still feigning an inability to remember 70-year-old Canby's name, Pegler called him "Mr. Canfield," "doc," "the old boy" and "gramp." Concluded Pegler: "If the old goat wants to get tough . . . what does he mean quoting my piece without permission? I am copyrighted...
LITERARY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (three vols., 2,239 pp.)-Edited by Robert E. Spiller, Willard Thorp, Thomas H. Johnson, Henry Seidel Canby-Macmillan...
...Headed by Harvard's emeritus Ralph Barton Perry, and including Princeton's emeritus Christian Gauss, Columbia's Henry Steele Commager, Henry Seidel Canby, 100-odd others. *In 1944 he campaigned unsuccessfully for state senator (his strategy: "Mostly to keep my trap shut...
Christopher Morley wasn't there when his fellow Book-of-the-Month Club judges chose Josephine Pinckney's Great Mischief for March. That leaves the blame to be split four ways among B.O.M. Judges Henry Seidel Canby, Dorothy Canfield, Clifton Fadiman and John P. Marquand. They have bought a salable name (Miss Pinckney's earlier Three O'Clock Dinner was a bestselling Literary Guild choice, is now being filmed) but not a satisfactory novel. Apparently unabashed, they compound their great mischief by bracketing Miss Pinckney with Novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne. This tiresome little witch story, which flirts...