Word: elwyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learned more about writing from White than from anybody else," said Humorist James Thurber once of E. B. (for Elwyn Brooks) White, the lucid essayist whose weekly wit led off The New Yorker for years before he deserted Manhattan to write on a farm in Maine. From Thurber it was high praise, and it spoke another truth: behind every writer stands a teacher of some kind. Behind E. B. White himself, it turns out, stands the exhortative ghost of a curious and delightful man, the late Professor William Strunk Jr., proprietor of English 8 at Cornell University when White passed...
After a marriage that soon ended in divorce, Uchimura went to the U.S. At the Quaker-run Elwyn Training School for feeble-minded children in Elwyn, Pa., he learned about the love-centered, noninstitutional Christianity for which he yearned. He graduated from Amherst in 1887 and spent a few months at Hartford Theological Seminary. But American seminary training, he decided, was not suitable for Christian work in Japan, and Uchimura went back home...
...Elwyn Brooks White L.H.D...
...original authentic voices of The New Yorker belongs to E. B. (for Elwyn Brooks) White. As an editor and frequent lead-off man in the "Talk of the Town" section, E. B. White has done much in the past 28 years to set the urbane, casual pitch which is its hallmark...
...group didn't ask Mulvihill to resign, but forced the union's board of directors to call an election for the presidency. Instead of running for the job themselves, they put up Burr Hall janitor Elwyn Wyman for the top position and Mrs. Helen Maynard, a maid in Eliot House, for the vice-presidency. Mulvihill suddenly withdrew from the race, and Wyman was elected. But the pace proved too tough, and Wyman resigned after only a month in office. No one knew exactly...