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O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
EACH IN HIS GENERATION. By Maxwell Struthers Burt"CONTACT!" By Frances Noyes HartTHE CAMEL'S BACK. By F. Scott FitzgeraldBREAK-NECK HILL. By Esther ForbesBLACK ART AND AMBROSE. By Guy GilpatricTHE JUDGMENT OF VULCAN. By Lee Foster HartmanTHE ARGOSIES. By Alexander HullALMA MATER. By O. F. LewisSLOW POISON. By Alice Duer MillerTHE FACE IN THE WINDOW. By William Dudley PelleyA MATTER OF LOYALTY. By Lawrence PerryPROFESSOR TODD'S USED CAR. By L.H. RobbinsTHE THING THEY LOVED. By "Marice Rutledge"BUTTERFLIES. By "Rose Sidney"NO FLOWERS. By Gordon Arthur SmithFOOTFALLS. By Wilbur Daniel SteeleTHE LAST ROOM OF ALL. By Stephen French Whitman
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t of an embarrassment of riches offered by this author.
The best horror story of the year is Rose Sidney's "Butterflies." It
is a Greek tragedy, unrelieved, to be taken or left without
palliation.
Athletics, no one will deny, constitutes a definite phase of American life. The sport-struggle is best illustrated in the fiction of Lawrence Perry, whether it be that of a polo match, tennis game, or crew race. "A Matter of Loyalty" is representative of this contest, and in the combined judgment of the Committee the highest ranking of all Mr. Perry's stories. "Bills Playable," by Jonathan Brooks, conceives athletics in a more humorous spirit.
Animal stories fill page upon page of 1920 magazines. Edison Marshall, represented in the 1919 volume, by "The Elephant Remembers," has delivered the epic of "Brother Bill the Elk." In spite of its length, some fifteen thousand words, the Committee were mightily tempted to request it for republication. Its Western author knows the animals in their native lairs. "Break-Ne
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