Word: descent
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Near Ball's Wharf, among the scattering of poor white farmers, lives Luther Harris, a great six-foot yellow giant whom all, even mules and bulls, respect. It is rumored that he and his relatives the Batkins, who live up river in the Hehonee swamps, are of Indian descent. It is an Indian that Luther would like to be so that his daughter Sis could break the color line, go off to government school at the Tohannock Indian reservation. Semmes Maiden, a young lawyer from Battleburg, the State capital, capitalizes on this desire of Luther's, persuades...
Died. Gamaliel Bradford, 68, biographer (Damaged Souls, Darwin, The Quick & The Dead); after lingering illness; in Wellesley Hills, Mass. Eighth in lineal descent from Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony, he termed himself a "psychographer." Critics called him "the U. S. Lytton Strachey," rated him less urbane and epigrammatic but more profound. An essayist and editorialist (for the Boston Herald), he said: "My biographical work is laborious and hard. . . . But plays and novels! It's easy and fun to write them. . . . That's what . . . I've done year after year without much encouragement." Biographer Bradford, though sickly...
Dutch Queen Wilhelmina, who counts her money in florins and cents, was right royally interested to learn last week that South Africans may soon be doing the same. In the British Dominion of the Union of South Africa many a citizen is of Dutch descent. When London's pound and shilling went off the gold standard (TIME, Sept. 28), Capetown's pound and shilling stayed on. This was inconvenient. Last week South Africa's legislators were rushing through a bill to create a new Dominion currency of florins and cents...
...water." To dignify men's passions, men's predicaments, he had merely motivated his tragedies with themes al ready given classic sanction by the Greeks. A brief excursion into Christian mythology in Dear Judas, apparently taken from sense of duty, did not much advance his thought; neither did Descent to the Dead, a compilation of 16 poems written in Ireland and Great Britain on a trip with his wife and twins about three years ago, during which Poet Jeffers spent much of his time looking at graves...
...Spenser and the Table Round", by C. B. Millican is the eighth volume in Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature Queen Elizabeth and all the Tudors were so much interested in their Welsh descent, and all that it implied, that it was almost inevitable for Spenser to use the Arthurian legend in a poem which glorified his sovereign on the basis of national legend. During her reign Arthurian interests were abundant, and those interests were abundant, and those interested in the backgrounds and sources of English poetry will find little-known treasures of British folk-lore and myth...