Word: alken
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...they cared little for literature, basing your assertion on the sale of a Thackeray first edition for $6. Has it occurred to you that the Thackeray might be worth only $6 ? And certainly you can have no objection to printing correctly the names of Messrs. Thomas Rowlandson and Henry Alken, two of the greatest caricaturists of all times...
Whiting Fellowships, C. B. P. Alken 4E.S., of New Orleans, La; D. Bourgin 2G, of N. Y.; H. B. Curry 2G, of Boston; R. A. Loring 2G, of Hingham...
...holder of the scholarship offered by the committee of Overseers to visit the Engineering School for 1923-24 is Charles B. P. Alken of New Orleans Louisiana, who graduated from Tulane University last June and is now a fourth year student in the Engineering School...
Just before the war, and in the very generation with the famous Benets, come T. S. Eliot, Alan Seager, Conrad Alken, and (Robert Nathan, whose "Peter Kindred" started the series of college novels generally credited to Princeton...
...times Mr. Alken's poems are almost pure music. Schumann, they remind one of, in their exuberance, their pulsing rhythms and sorrowful, lapsing melodies. Some of them are a little hard to follow, so intricately psychological they seem. But upon each re-reading they grow clearer--like music, honest music, which one hears, and wants to hear, again and again. Always the melody comes suddenly, strong and clear, to catch one at the throat...