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...personal collection of apt phrases to show "the obligations our language owes to various authors for ... familiar quotations which have become 'household words.' " By 1891 Bartlett had published nine revisions; the tenth appeared in 1914. Despite its encyclopedic scope, Bartlett's left out Hawthorne, Melville, Emily Dickinson, William Blake, included many forgotten patriots of the Revolutionary War, many forgotten minor poets. Cutting down these, reducing the quotations from Byron and Wordsworth, Editors Morley and Everett have brought in moderns from Archibald MacLeish to William Butler Yeats. Shakespeare still leads with 77 of the 1,126 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Morley's Revisions | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...Kelly was arrested, charged with shooting 68-year-old Alderman J. R. Page, of Nashville, Ark., on her porch after a quarrel. To Mineral Springs to "render any assistance needed" by Widow Kelly, once the wife of a country doctor named J. M. Rivers, Georgia's Governor Eurith Dickinson Rivers, her son, sent his younger brother, J. S. Rivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 15, 1937 | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...School of Education) to Gayle B. Childs, Wayne, Nobraska; Barbara K. Colt, Clearwater, Florida; Walter L. Deemer, Jr., Quakertown, Pennsylvania; James A. Dickinson, Dayton, Ohio; Edward V. Malcom, Cambridge; Elizabeth Rempfer, Parkston, South Dakota; Joseph H. Young, Terre Haute, Indiana; and Leo Lieberman, Woburn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $5,900 AWARDS GIVEN TO GRADUATE STUDENTS | 10/20/1937 | See Source »

Tattnall State Prison, brand new "Alcatraz of the Piney Woods" was designed to stop Georgia chain-gang and prison-camp escapes, which have embarrassed Georgia's Governor Eureth Dickinson Rivers. Last week, the Governor of Georgia was embarrassed again. Six of "escape proof" Tattnalls first tenants coolly sawed through their bars, wriggled through a trap door. Three of the six then clambered over a barbed wire fence, scampered off into the pine woods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Jail Breakage | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

William D. Dickinson, Jr., assistant in Civil Engineering, University of Arkansas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINETEEN ARE ADDED TO HARVARD FACULTY | 9/30/1937 | See Source »

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