Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...busy riding Michigan's Epworth League circuit that he could no longer get back to Charlotte on Sundays, pious ex-Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson (81) announced regretfully that he would have to give up the Bible Class at the Center Eaton Methodist Church over which he had presided regularly for 55 years-never more regularly than when all he had to do was run Michigan...
...DICKINSON...
Though granting that sin still lurked in such "adjuncts of the devil's back yard" and "citadels of hell" as Michigan's drink spots, godly, 81-year-old retiring Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson, addressing an exaugural message to the State Legislature, drew the Legislature's attention (and Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner's) to the fact that "God Almighty has a place and power in Michigan's State administration as never before...
Melville, says steely Critic Blackmur, "habitually used words greatly," but was grievously limited to "putative statement" -to talking about dramatic intentions rather than embodying them. He was at his best in sermons, where the putative need not support itself. Emily Dickinson was pitifully irresponsible with words, too often wrote, instead of her extraordinary best, "a kind of vers de société of the soul...
...four ladies interviewed were Barbara Ann Paine, Charlotte Davidson, Catherine Allen Dickinson, and Mary Josephs, all of whom claim through experience the right to criticize their Harvard...