Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary in popular opinion, David Taggart Dickinson '18, who is frequently to be seen tearing around Cambridge in his bright red three-wheeled "gig" and ten gallon hat, has no connection with the Fire Department. However, since early boyhood, fires have been his hobby, and at present he is unquestionably the foremost authority in Cambridge on their causes and prevention...
...contributing to the Mark Twain Centennial, Librarian Asa Don Dickinson of Brooklyn College made public the full text of a letter written by the humorist in 1905. Librarian Dickinson, then of the Brooklyn Public Library, had forwarded a complaint by the young woman in charge of his Children's Department that Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were mischievous and deceitful examples for children. Replied Author Twain...
...invite fourth a series of exclusive articles on American College Architecture. The fifth to appear next week, will discuss the beginnings and building of Rutgers, Dartmouth and Dickinson...
...still waiting for the Head of the Church of Rome to condemn . . . Italy," snorted President Baron Dickinson of the World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through the Churches last week in London. Stoutly rebutting for the Supreme Pontiff, Most Rev. Arthur Kinsley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, explained that the Holy Father is "a helpless old man. ... As Head of the Church he has no grounds to interfere in purely political matters unless invited...
...dismally few great American poems have been included but a little more effort in trying to select only those would make the volume more interesting. We miss Ezra Pound, Archibald MacLeish, and Stephen Vincent Benet among the modern group and individual selections such as some of Emily Dickinson's "Life" beside the few cantos included here, Sidney Lanier's "The Marshes of Glynn", and Millay's "Wild Swans". To make room for these some of the emphasis could have been removed from Bryant and Longfellow and the volume would have been made considerably more useful...