Word: sherwood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sherwood Anderson, grizzled author (Winesburg, Ohio; Dark Laughter) went back to Chicago after an absence of eight years to look at the setting for his new book, Beyond Desire...
...American Birth Control League held, in Manhattan, its first general conference in five years. The calibre of the sponsors suggested a changing social attitude-the wife of Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament, the wife of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss, Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Flagler, Sherwood Eddy, Norman Thomas, Mrs. Stanley McCormick, Harry Emerson Fosdick. . . . The conferees deplored the fact that there are only 29 centres in the U. S. where birth control information is given- four places in California (Los Angeles, Oakland, Pasadena, San Francisco), one in Colorado (Denver), eight in Illinois (all in Chicago...
Engaged. Frederick Roberts Rinehart, youngest (third) son of Author Mary Roberts Rinehart ("K," Bab-A Sub-Deb, Tish-); and Miss Elizabeth Sherwood; at Geneva...
...22?Opening night of the American Repertory Company at Theatre Femina, Paris. First production: The Road to Rome by Robert E. Sherwood...
...Sherwood Anderson, storyteller, spoke on "The Newspaper and the Modern Age," explained he had become a small-town editor (Democrat and Smyth County News in Marion, Va.) because life was dull and vulgar in the Modern Age. "Newspaper writing is writing," he said. ". . . [it] can be as direct, as noble, as fine as any other kind of writing. It is a record, bad or good, of the passing pageant of life." He predicted: "I think that we in America will survive the machine age. Mankind could always stand what would kill a dog. . . . Drink or casual sex experiments will...