Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he was 18 young Braley got hold of a copy of Tom Hood's Rhymster, an experience which he compares to that of the youthful Keats on first looking into Chapman's Homer. Free verse and bizarre modern forms get short shrift from Rhymster Braley. The critics, in his opinion, know nothing about professional writing. And editors are a bad-mannered, incompetent, timid, unreliable lot of numbskulls with "more taboos than a South African savage...
...baseball critics, many of the selections on the all-star teams seemed dubious. Obviously Babe Ruth, who at 40 is probably in his last big-league year, would play outfield; he got 114,999 votes. Nonetheless, on the basis of field performance this year either Ben Chapman (Yankees), who got only 19,076, or Heinie Manush (Senators), who got 82,410, was more deserving. Big league managers are not wholeheartedly in favor of an all-star game. They feel that it tires their best players, gives the two special managers an unfair advantage because they may get a chance...
...Brothers Woodyard - William ("Bill''), 39, Edward Douglas ("Ted"), 37, and Henry Chapman, 35-are sons of the late Representative Harry C. Woodyard of West Virginia. In 1920 a business dispute dumped the Spencer, W. Va. Times-Record into Congressman Woodyard's lap. Father Woodyard put his sons to work on the paper. They liked it, made it earn money. Five years later they acquired a second weekly, then a third, fourth, fifth...
Carleton Abramson Chapman, 1G, of Groveton, N. H., to be Assistant in Petrography. S.B. Univ. of New Hampshire...
Jean Mirman of L'Ecole d'Aeronautique, Paris, France, was granted the Victor Emmanuel Chapman Memorial Fellowship for study in some department of Harvard University; this award is restricted to French Students. Mirman will study engineering, specializing in aeronautics...