Word: cullen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...includes accounts of the Draft Riots, the Gold Corner, the opening of the Atlantic Cable, the bloody street-war between the Fenians and Orangemen. But it is principally memorable for its items of unessential information which throw an oblique light on the times. Thus, Author Brown records that William Cullen Bryant introduced one speaker at Cooper Union as "a lawyer well known in the West, Mr. A. Lincoln." Lincoln's principal problem at that moment was to straighten out the affairs of his son, Robert, who had just flunked his examinations at Harvard. When Lincoln left the hall...
...attempted a rather heavy philosophical introduction to the work of their protagonist but have made a sincere effort to treat him fairly--and shield him from the frequent adverse criticism which has so often been hurled at him. We were however, a little disappointed, at the introduction to "William Cullen Bryant" which fails, as all introductions to the works of the Prodigy of Cummington fail, to show that he wrote any superior poetry except for the immortal "Thanatopsis...
Committee & Culprit. After the Chicago riots a commission was appointed to see what could be done about improving the Negroes' lot. Following suit, Mayor LaGuardia last week appointed a similar committee composed of prominent Negroes like Poet Countee Cullen and President A. Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, such professional white committeemen as Trustee William Jay Schieffelin of Tuskegee Institute, Lawyers Morris Ernst and Arthur Garfield Hays...
Wholly unexpected was the choice of the Ligue Internationale des Aviateurs for No. 1 U. S. pilot of the year: American Airlines' Chief Pilot Dean Cullen Smith. Famed among fellow-pilots but virtually unknown to the public, tall, black-mustached Dean Smith last made front-page news when, in December, he spotted from the air an American Airlines passenger plane which had been lost for more than 48 hours in the blizzard-swept Adirondacks. Oldtime airmail pilot, member of Admiral Byrd's first expedition to Antarctica, Dean Smith has never been a headline flyer, lives quietly with...
...whom the attention of millions of Negro tots was directed this week. All over the land black schoolmarms observed Negro History Week by discoursing proudly to their pupils about the life & work of such distinguished living Negroes as Singers Paul Robeson and Roland Hayes, Novelist Claude McKay, Poets Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes, and of such famed dead...