Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walter Hines Page on World's Work. For two years he wrote definitions or a dictionary, articles for an encyclopedia. Like Edwin Arlington Robinson, he could draw a map of New York City, showing the location of every free lunch counter. One of his good friends was John Butler Yeats, the painter, father of William Butler Yeats. The old man lectured to him on the value of idleness, painted a fine portrait of him that now hangs over the fireplace of his house in Westport, and told him the one most important thing he had learned in life...
...Germany: 200 Miles. But it was northward that the Allied advance made the swiftest progress. Motorized units of "Butler's Task Force," commanded by Brigadier General Frederick B. Butler, kiting up secondary roads in the hills east of the Rhone valley, quickly reached Grenoble. They were now 150 miles from the coast, 230 miles from Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley's forces in the north, 200 miles from the German frontier. Three days later a party of correspondents, jeeping peacefully through Maquis-held territory, turned up on the Swiss frontier near Geneva, 200 miles from the beachhead...
...butler wept. Sebastian sighed: "Now I won't get my evening clothes." "Was it Marcus Aurelius or Julius Caesar . . . who passed on in the W.C.?" inquired Mrs. Gamble. She arranged a seance at once...
Intensely distrustful of emotionalism and romancing, Hopkins called Swin burne's verses about children "blethery bathos"; and when William Butler Yeats wrote an allegory about a man and a sphinx conversing on a rock in the sea, Hopkins asked coldly: "How did they get there? What did they...
Nicholas ("Miraculous") Murray Butler, whose biography had long been the longest in the U.S. Who's Who (last edition he had 129 lines), gave way in the 1944-45 edition to International Business Machines President Thomas J. ("Think") Watson, who garnered 148 lines. New names in Who's Who included...