Word: cooperativeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond's journey this morning takes us back some hundred and seventeen years. James Fenimore Cooper is about thirty years sour on life; and no less pugnacious and determined than fifteen years ago, when he was gently booted out of Yale for insubordination. But that's all back of him now; as well as his career on a merchant vessel seeing Europe for the first time and later as a midshipman in the United States navy...
...Cooper following that irresistible path of least resistance and just about to settle down to the sweets of married life. As the story goes, one evening Cooper was reading aloud to his wife a novel of English society. And here the Vagabond would stress this ever-growing tendency of some of our modern novels: They often do for us just what they did for our budding genius. He said: "What stuff I believe I could write a better story myself...
...Cooper, being the constant gadfly that she was, dared him to try. Cooper, we are told, never refused a challenge. The result was "Precaution." It's a pity that the author didn't take the title as a hint. The work has proved to be one of the worst novels in history...
Here the Vagabond would take leave of Mr. Cooper for a moment to tell his readers that last evening he did see La Argentina dance and very happily too and after he did see her and talk with her and though he didn't go seeking a pep talk, the conversation did reach a depth when Browning was quoted to the effect that each stumbling block in life could be made a stepping stone. And that little cliche offers a nice transition to what we have to say further of Mr. Cooper...
Swooping down on the annual charity performance of the Society of Illustrators, Manhattan police found five naked girls prancing on the stage, hung coats over them, bundled them off to jail for indecency. The male audience, including Herbert Bayard Swope, Courtney Ryley Cooper, Rube Goldberg, Otto Soglow and Arthur William Brown, at first thought the police were actors, laughed uproariously when they announced the show was closed. Then, indignant, many an illustrator traipsed off to court, asked why he should not see nude girls in a show when he painted the same nude girls daily in studios...