Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Modern poetry, like experimental science, is always precocious to its day. Even William Wordsworth was once a misunderstood modern, a reprehensible revolutionary. Edwin Arlington Robinson, who last week published his eighth quiet narrative poem, was never considered a blasphemer of the literary gods, but once he was more modern than he is today. Now distinctly a member of the old guard, thrice crowned with the perishable bays of the Pulitzer Prize (1922, 1925, 1927). Robinson is by long odds the most respected living U. S. poet. In his 65th year this New England Browning still turns out a lengthy blank...
...cans annually. Tin cans, as all the world knows, are not made from tin but from tin plate which is 98½% steel with 1½% coating of tin. Last year the can makers used more steel than any other industry except the automobile, absorbing one-eighth of the country's total steel production. Furthermore, two can companies between them make at least two out of every three cans opened. American Can is more than twice as large as Continental Can but both have waxed rich on the theory of taking an infinitesimal profit on each can and then...
Life Begins at 8:40 (words & music by Ira Gershwin, E. Y. Harburg & Harold Arlen; Shuberts, producers). Until recently a look at the program was unnecessary to identify Shubert revues. Their hallmark was stage furnishings which suggested nothing so much as Eighth Avenue second-hand shops. The height of scenic imagination was usually a gauze drop behind which tottered in semidarkness a troupe of half-naked show girls. The decor of Life Begins at 8:40, turned out by the youngest and best man in the business, is no more like that of typical Shubert offerings than chicken salad...
...Mann Act "Machine Gun Jack" married Louise Rolfe. He turned to "organizing union labor," developed an excellent game of golf, last autumn played the first seven holes of the Western Open Championship in one under par, only to have the police arrest him for vagrancy on the eighth tee. No such golfer as her husband, Mrs. Gebardi was eliminated in the first round of last week's tournament, three down on the 16th...
...facts: A cold storage egg one year old is fresher than a fresh egg that has stood in a hot room for three days; eggs rank eighth in the value of all U. S. crops; there are 360 eggs in a case...