Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baron is short, thickset, determined. Keen eyes peer from behind heavy round spectacles. His broad stubby mustache, his quick big-toothed smile are more than vaguely Rooseveltian. Years ago as a Japanese diplomat Baron Shidehara knew the Rough Rider President, recalls him warmly as "my friend." Asked recently point blank, "Has anyone ever told you that you look like Roosevelt?" Japan's Foreign Minister replied with crisp satisfaction, ''Yes, someone told me that in Washington on my first visit...
...long blank verse narrative (or rather, psychological drama), Matthias at the Door is a typical Robinson poem. Matthias is an oaklike man, successful, preeminent, proud. The world envies and respects him; his few friends are fond of him, though they see his pride is vanity...
...immense value, was among the papers. There was a love letter to Anne Hathaway and a tribute to an ancestor of Ireland's for having saved Shakespeare's life, a device used by Ireland to strengthen his story. The author even went so far as to include a blank sheet of paper bearing a characteristically Elizabethan watermark in order to lend an air of validity to the documents...
...have to worry whether or not the money came in, Publisher Gannett's line of appeal was remarkably insistent. Unlike Publisher Hearst, he ordered his own employes to sell the stock. To each went a circular letter, a booklet of selling hints and a blank prospect list. The letter, signed by the publisher, read in part: "We expect every employee of the company to turn in at least 24 names." The booklet suggested such prospects as "Your relations. . . . People your relatives can suggest. . . . Personal friends. . . . People with whom you trade. . . . Members of your club or lodge. . . ." The prospect list...
...took his wife and three children (John, Jane, Joan) to live permanently in England. Nearsighted, silent, excruciatingly shy, Conrad Aiken is a serious, hard-working poet who occasionally ventures into prose. To a fellow-passenger on a liner who asked Aiken: "What's your line?" he replied: "Blank verse!" Aiken's ambition is to write "a sort of absolute poetry, a poetry in which the intention is not so much to arouse an emotion, or to persuade of a reality, as to employ such emotion or sense of reality (tangentially struck) with the same cool detachment with which...