Word: canfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the detention of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, Dorothy Canfield Fisher has consented to pay a hurried visit to Cambridge in order to speak before a luncheon meeting of the Teacher's Association to be held today...
...history, has been chosen as one of 200 contemporary books to be presented to President Roosevelt Tuesday by the nation's booksellers to supplement the permanent White House library. The committee of judges which made the selections included Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Emeritus; Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Alexander Woolcott, Christopher Morely, Julia Peterkin, and William Lyon Phelps. Perry is reported to be one of the Pulitzer Prize committee, although the judges' names have never been officially revealed by Columbia University...
...Class Day officers are as follows: M. A. Shattuck, R. Cobb. D. A. Freeman, P. Zach, F. W. Hatch. G. D. Flynn, H. McA. Lloyd, M. Phinney, G. A. Brownell, F. Parkman, G. C. Barelay, R. M. Gross, H. C. Flower. C. Canfield, C. A. Clark, Jr., and L. K. Garrison...
...best field of letters. At a testimonial dinner presided over by Pontifex Minimus Henry Seidel Canty, buttressed by such notables as Nicholas Murray Butler, Thomas W. Lamont, Owen D. Young, Mrs. Ogden Reid, Felix Warburg, William Allen White, such literary sidelights as Willa Gather, Sinclair Lewis; Christopher Morley, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, the praises of Thomas Mann were to be chanted, droned and anecdotalized hour after hour at the Plaza Hotel...
...bribing lawyers, chiseling labor delegates, racketeers of any sort. He hated the name of "reformer," smoked incessantly, drank, played poker and shot craps with his cronies. He prosecuted Harry Kendall Thaw, kept him in asylums for six years after Thaw's acquittal on an insanity plea; smashed Richard Canfield's famed gambling palace...