Word: dickinson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...William Dickinson, a 1939 Fellow, moved from the Minneapolis UP office to head the entire Foreign Bureau in New York; Bill Miler (1940) rose from a reporter on the Cleveland Press to News Editor of Time; John Crider (also 1940) stepped up from a staffer's spot on the New York Times to the editorship of the Boston Herald...
Eastward in Eden (by Dorothy Gardner; produced by Nancy Stern) is the third play (the others: Alison's House, Brittle Heaven) to treat of New England's renowned recluse, Poetess Emily Dickinson (1830-86). By now it should be clear that Emily, whose life was as inward as it was intense, is not the likeliest sort of figure for the public glare of the stage...
...likelier figure for the printed page, Emily Dickinson has been the subject of many critical studies and four full-length biographies: the first by Emily's niece, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1924); a second by Josephine Pollitt (1930); No. 3 by Poetess Genevieve Taggard (1934); and the latest by Professor George Whicher of Amherst College...
...Daniel Boone, Pocahontas). Enough also-rans (1½ pages in the D.A.B.) were then added to bring the list to an even thousand. The finalists include 973 men (examples: George and Booker T. Washington, Eugene V. Debs, Aaron Burr, Andrew Carnegie, Brigham Young) and 27 women (Lillian Russell, Emily Dickinson, Mary Baker Eddy). Some of the findings...
Jimmy Stewart got a "meritorious service" citation from the General Federation of Women's Clubs, convening in Manhattan. When outgoing President Mrs. La Fell Dickinson fluffed her lines during the presentation, Actor Stewart, who looks as comforting as every mother's son should look, played his familiar role to the hilt...