Word: waddington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CHILDREN OF DIVORCE-Owen JOHNSON-Little, Brown ($2.00). Jean Waddington, with tea-brown hair, a meditative conscience and divorced parents, resolves upon the rock of an unhappy childhood that marriage, unless eternal, is a sin. Forthwith, she arouses a consuming love in Ted Larrabee, another child of divorce. She hesitates at marriage because she has millions and she wants Ted to have a career. Her cousin and childhood friend, Kitty Flanders, an effervescent little animal, also a child of divorce, sees an opening and captures Ted. The scene shifts from Long Island to Paris to the Riviera. Jean...
...London, one Prof. Thomas Waddington encountered a snail crawling along a railroad track, crawled after the small creature to observe its habits, was overtaken, after a brief study, by a London train. Both snail and professor were killed...
There are those admirers of Miss Sinclair who recall the days of The Divine Fire and Mary Olivier with regret and find in them their favorite work of this novelist; but, for me, the foolery of Mr. Waddington of Wyck, the perfection of detail in Ann Severn and the Fieldings, the devastating character portrayal of A Cure of Souls seem more intensely original, more characteristic of her and of her time...
William Johnston, whose new mystery novel. "The Waddington Cipher." (Doubleday, Page & Co.), is the first story that has ever been serialized over the radio, holds a unique newspaper position as suggestion editor or official idea man to the New York World. His work is to anticipate public interest--to guess what will interest newspaper readers, not only today, but tomorrow and next week. This position with no detail duties and freedom to scout all over the world for suggestions that will add interest to any department of the paper, has shaped itself out of the variety of new ideas that...