Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having come within a squeak of being elected Governor of New York this month by asserting that New York's Democracy is a dirty political machine, famed young Republican District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey last week went back to work. He produced a dramatic indictment charging that a leading Tammany officeholder, whose name is a household word throughout the State, was a bribe-taker and extortionist...
Outside Westminster Abbey, while London police stood guard before locked doors, passersby saw a glint of light through stained-glass windows. Inside the Abbey, from behind a canvas screen in Poets' Corner, came the clanking of picks. Near the base of Edmund Spenser's monument gravediggers scooped up sand from beneath the stones, uncovered a lead coffin and evidences that two more bodies had been buried in the same grave...
...years ago, Tropic of Cancer has a bigger subterranean reputation than any recent book, based partly on the extravagant praise of critics like T. S. Eliot, partly on the difficulty of buying smuggled copies, but mostly because it is a low book, "the lowest book," in the words of Edmund Wilson, "I can ever remember to have read...
...first copies smuggled into the U. S. created considerable critical stir. The Saturday Review of Literature called Miller "the largest force lately risen on the horizon of American letters," while Pound announced: "At last an unprintable book that is fit to read." But when Edmund Wilson wrote that it possessed "a strange amenity of temper and style which bathes the whole composition even when we may find it tiresome or disgusting," Miller wrote an angry reply: "Damn all the critics anyway! The best publicity for a man who has anything to say is silence...
Greatest of all Dr. Kelly's joys is the career of his son Edmund Bredow, who teaches gynecology at the Hopkins. Only real son bequeathed the Hopkins by any of its four founders, he carries with him his father's tales of golden days and keeps green the memory of Howard Kelly's glorious surgical exploits...