Word: cullen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Newark, N. J., one night last week, a freight train thundered along the Pennsylvania tracks. As it passed Haynes Avenue, Brakeman J. Leroy Cullen of Bloomfield, N. J., missed his hold, dropped under the grinding trucks, was carried to a hospital, where surgeon amputated both legs. Next morning four relatives entered his room and a clear tenor voice was raised, singing "Mother Machree." After the last note there was a hush. Cullen's relatives filed out, lips quivering, grief-stricken. Wondering hospital attendants learned that the deceased, trained in a choir, often sang to his family of an evening...
...Countee Cullen, 1G, has been awarded the Witter Bynner Undergraduate Poetry Prize for 1925. The judges of the Poetry Society of America's Undergraduate Contest, Sara Teasdale, George Sterling, and the donor, unanimously decided that Cullen, who is a Negro, should receive the $150 prize. For two years Cullen had held second place. When he wrote the poems that brought him the award, he was an undergraduate at New York University...
...Color" is the first published work of Cullen, who is a negro. He has been writing poetry for a number of years, several of his poems appearing in newspapers and magazines...
Coincidental with the appearance of Cullen's first book came the news from Chicago that he had received the John Reed Memorial Prize of $100. This prize was awarded to Cullen for his poem entitled "Threnody for a Brown Girl," which appeared in the May number of the Poetry Magazine...
...Cullen's book which appeared yesterday is 108 pages in length, and contains some 70 poems, most of them lyrics. It is in the latter form of verse that Cullen is especially proficient...