Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...date Columbia has had three meets, coming out on top in all of them. The Columbia Alumni, the Elizabeth Y. M. O. A. of New York, and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute met defeat at their hands...
...common practice for a pipsqueak versifier to identify himself with a better poet by stealing his lines. But for a minor poetess to accuse a minor poet of stealing her queer numbers is something again. Last week Nathalia Crane, Brooklyn child "prodigy," author of a book called Lava Lane which amazed critics by its pomposity, its facility, its jaw-dislocating decasyllabics, and by the fact that it had been written by a person not yet adolescent, wrote a letter to the editor of the New York World in which she intimated certain things about Joseph Auslander, author of Sunrise Trumpets...
...Joseph Auslander has honored me by stepping close to one of my lines. It is a method of courtesy that I am not yet familiar with. Dec. 25, 1926, in Brooklyn Life he has some verses entitled 'Historia Amoris...
Married. Robert H. Thayer, son of Headmaster William Greenough Thayer of famed St. Mark's School, Southborough, Mass.; to Virginia Pratt, granddaughter of the late Charles Pratt, founder of famed Pratt Institute, Brooklyn; in Manhattan...
Died. Richard Cary ("Uncle Richard'') Morse, 85, famed pioneer Y. M. C. A. official; at his Brooklyn home; of general breakdown, following a severe cold. Nephew of Painter-Inventor Samuel F. B. Morse he attended Yale, rowed on the 'Varsity crew, graduated in 1862. Student for the ministry, he was persuaded to become religious editor (1867-69) of the New York Observer; wrote for it a report of a meeting of the Y. M. C. A (then a struggling fledgling) which won him an official position with the organization; became eventually (until 1915) general secretary...