Word: arlington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Phelps, Dr. & Mrs. Henry Seidel Canby and many another including Critic Carl Van Doren whose position with the Literary Guild of America made him a sort of esthetic promoter of the evening, and Mrs. August Belmont (stage name: Eleanor Robson), who read aloud for all. The poet was Edwin Arlington Robinson, of a darkling and somewhat chilly New England, singing the two Isolts...
...Poet. Edwin Arlington Robinson ? lean, stooping figure, dark mustache, dreamer's forehead, thinker's mouth, soft hat, cane, shuns women and public speaking ? came to fame in 1905 when Theodore Roosevelt, then President, reviewed The Children of the Night, which Mr. Robinson had written in a barn at Gardiner, Me. Mr. Roosevelt secured him a position in the New York Customs House. He is now employed by Ledoux & Co. (ores) in John Street, Manhattan. On his 50th birthday (1919) a symposium of authors acclaimed him in the New York Times as greatest living U. S. poet. Twice since...
...TRISTRAM?Edwin Arlington Robinson? Macmillan...
...President let it be known that he will make four speeches before leaving for his summer vacation: on April 25 in Manhattan to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the United Press Association; on May 17 in Washington before the American Medical Association; on May 30 at the Arlington National Cemetery to commemorate Memorial Day; on June 11 in Washington before the business organization of the Federal Government. C Barren Collier, booster, seller of streetcar advertising, had luncheon with President Coolidge, informed him that a survey of 3,500 U. S. cities pointed to business prosperity. The first six months...
...small co-operative association of newspapers in 1900 to a service with 1.200 member newspapers, 80,000 reporters, 131000 miles of leased wires and a $7,000,000 annual turnover. In 1920 Mr. Stone resigned. In 1921, on the occasion of the entombment of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery, began a "splurge of flowery writing" the like of which Mr. Stone would never have permitted. President Harding's death, Woodrow Wilson's death, the deaths of Rudolph Valentino, Floyd Collins and Luther Burbank, were cited as other points of departure for "flights of puerile fancy" by Associated...