Word: ankerousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Assembly looked more like a publisher's tea than a political assembly. Present as members of the new League Committee on Arts & Letters were: Poet Laureate John Masefield of England, French Academician Paul Valery, German Nobleman Thomas Mann, Italy's Ugo Ojetti, Norway's Nina Roll-Anker. Professor Gilbert Murray (Oxford English Dictionary) was there in his capacity as President of the International Commission for Intellectual Cooperation. The delegates spent most of their time rushing about with fountain pens in their hands autographing each others' books and sign ing group photographs, but they did pass resolutions...