Word: cummingses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heavy with fruit last week were 51,000 acres of California cling peach trees. Heavy too were their owners' hearts. The Peach Protective Association telegraphed Attorney General Homer S. Cummings: "You respectfully are requested . . . to investigate the activities of the Canning Industry Board of California, an association of about...
Virginia - a field goal and a first down against the New Deal in the renomination of Representative Howard Worth Smith of Alexandria and the defeat of Representative Norman R. Hamilton of Portsmouth. Mr. Smith's opponent was William E. Dodd Jr., 32, son of Franklin Roosevelt's former...
But with 315 of his most representative Poems now Collected, readers will realize that Cummings' technical unconventionalities have been essential from the start. Only with such assistance could he have made words bespeak his all but ineffable theme: the all-importance-for good men and true poets-of being...
i, as Cummings always spells ego, stands for Nobody. And Nobody is simply anybody who doesn't have delusions that he's Somebody. Consequently he can think of his physical existence in simple terms, can think of death without thinking of taxes, and can think of doom without...
But Nobody, in one of Cummings' descriptions of him, is "Wifeless and only half awake, cursed with pimples, correctly dressed, cleanshaven above the nombril . . . in brief: an American." So Nobody naturally spends a good deal of his time laughing. The nice thing about Nobody's laughter, and the...