Word: wilderness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prof. Phelps took his text for his inaugural sermon from Thornton Wilder (The Bridge of San Luis Key) rather than scripture. "Wilder says that a revival of religion must be accompanied by a revival of rhetoric. . . . The public finds it difficult to forgive Arnold Bennett for writing trash when he is capable of much better work...
...blood of Alpine frigidity. There were four bothersome women, many bothersome creditors. He faked a death, eluded the creditors, could not elude one blonde (Natalie Schafer). But by that time his Wood was rather Italian. Playwright Leonard Ide uses the episodic development with flashbacks lately popularized by Novelists Wilder & Bromfield. The second episode, with Ralph J. Locke as a French husband whose adjustment to his wife's infidelity shows skilled amorous economics, is the funniest. Otherwise the froth refuses to bubble...
They laid White House roses on three graves-the President's parents' and Calvin Coolidge Jr.'s. They visited Uncle John and Aunt Gratia Wilder and drove over to Proctorville to see Aunt Sarah Pollard. Her son was there too, Park H. Pollard, famed as one of the Democrats who seconded the Smith nomination at Houston. There were kisses and conversation. Everyone said "Cal" and "Grace...
...Lawrenceville in New Jersey, the loss (for a year) of Novelist-Professor Thornton Niven Wilder, writing a novel in England, tramping with a friend; the gain of ten new Masters...
...blind, sharp ears are given and sensitive fingers; those who cannot hear must use their eyes to make up for being deaf. Great musicians have been deaf; to sculptors, lack of hearing should surely prove no handicap. Thus, Mrs. Louise Wilder, deaf and somewhat famed sculptor of babies, last week indicated some of the advantages which she has derived from her deficiency. "Having been deaf for fourteen years I have learned to work entirely by myself never hearing the disturbing noises that bother so many artists in big cities. While others must go to the country for solitude, I have...