Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Guarded like a state secret, the annual Pulitzer Prize awards for distinction in U. S. letters and journalism were revealed this week when Columbia University's dignified old President Nicholas Murray Butler portentously puffed to his feet at a Manhattan banquet and read off the list of winners chosen by the advisory board of Columbia's School of Journalism. The awards...
...lineup: KIRKLAND (5) WINTHROP (1) Davis, 3b cf, Burbank Willis, ss rf, Gilliland Moser, p 3d, Moore Kessler, c c, Gray Carr, 1b 2, Butler Silbert, 1f 1b, Turner Marks, 2b ss, Cherbonnier Howe, rf lf., Busch Abrams, cf p, Sapienza SUBS: Spring, lf lb, Benedict Sullivan, rf 3b, Downes 2b, Ellis lf, Blumberg...
...other side the following points should be made. Butler was a great purifier. He deflated Victorian optimism, but remained a healthy and vigorous and decently optimistic mind. The Way of All Flesh is not a hymn of hate against his father, but in greater part a caricature of himself as a young man. The delay in its publication was due to a desire not to hurt the feelings of his sister Charlotte. He would have married Mme Dumas, about whom Mr. Muggeridge tells an incredibly scandalous story; but she herself did not wish it, because under the terms...
...Butler did not say that Homer was a woman. He wrote a learned and sober book in demonstration of the strong possibility that the Odyssey as opposed to the Iliad was written by a woman. His hypothesis is all the more remarkable in that he does not seem to have come across the classical reference charging Homer with having stolen the substance of the Odyssey from a woman writer called Phantasia. Butler also wrote an extremely interesting book on Shakespeare's Sonnets; it was Butler who started the close scrutiny of the homosexual element in them...
...Lastly, Butler was never an atheist. He never ceased to regard himself as a 'Broad Churchman...