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Died. Dr. Robert Seymour Bridges, 85 since 1913 Poet Laureate of England; after a short illness; at his home, Chilswell, Boar's Hill, Oxford. Son of a country 'squire, Etonian, Oxonian, he abandoned medicine for poetry at the age of 37 A classicist and inveterate prosodist, his appointment to succeed Laureate Alfred Austin amazed the literary world-Kipling, Yeats, Masefield, and Hardy were also regarded as candidates. Continually was Laureate Bridges chided for silence, poetical and personal; when he visited the U. S. and denied interviews, one newspaper headlined: KING'S CANARY WON'T CHIRP. Less...
...their slaughter though some western states offer wolf bounties. In France, where wolves still haunt the forests, there are still "wolf lieutenants"-landowners who, in return for protecting large portions of the terrain from wolves by maintaining packs of wolfhounds, are entitled to hunt government forests for wild boar. Among noted wolf lieutenants are two women, the Dowager Duchess d'Uzes and Mme Alice Abram Terras of Lambesc-Salen, who wears a man's uniform...
...January 1918, Graves married Nancy Nicholson, daughter of Painter William Nicholson. The wedding-cake icing was of plaster, on account of the shortage of sugar. The War over, Captain Graves and his wife (who still called herself by her maiden name) lived first at Harlech; then on Boar's Hill, outside Oxford, where they tried the disastrous experiment of keeping a shop; then at Islip, a village the other side of Oxford. Four children were born in these years. At Islip the parson made the great mistake of asking Hero Graves to read some of his poetry...
Tall, white-bearded, leonine, he walks scholarly, reflective paths at his home on Boar's Hill, near Oxford. Careless of the social niceties, when his tea is too hot he pours it into the saucer to cool it. Careful of pennies, he will stamp out of a tobacconist's shop in high dudgeon if he thinks the pipe-tobacco a halfpenny dearer than it should be. His life has been unexciting. He pays little attention to young critics who dismiss his poetry with the same adjective...
...Tobacco still holds a dominant position in the trade, is said to handle one-third each of the cigaret and smoking tobacco business, and one-fourth of the plug business. Besides Lucky Strike, its brands include Sweet Caporal, Pall Mall, Lord Salisbury, Bull Durham, Tuxedo, Half and Half, Blue Boar, Cremo. But the American Tobacco Co., as all the world knows, has concentrated on Lucky Strikes, for which most of its 1929 advertising budget of $12,300,000 was spent. The campaign was directed almost entirely by the company's President George Washington Hill. Born of rich parents...