Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Jayvee crew, feature Governor Leverett Saltonstall, which won the Grand Challenge Cup race in the Henley Royal Regatin at Henley, England 25 years ago, will take to the water again tomorrow afternoon at Newell boathouse at five o'clock...
Under CAA's certificate of convenience and necessity, awarded to Pan Am the day before the first trip, only two transatlantic flights may be made a week. With authorizations from France and England for six a week, CAA is keeping room for competition. Only competitor now in sight: American Export Airlines, which has not yet made its first exploration flight...
...Club is an international association of writers. Its members include most of the world's top poets, playwrights, editors, essayists and novelists. First international president was John Galsworthy. President now is Jules Romains. Founded 18 years ago in England, P. E. N. has spent 17 years of its decorous, softspoken, ineffectual existence passing futile resolutions and trying to make next year's meeting better than the last. Nations might rise or fall, populations perish, wars rage, but P. E. N. merely raised its penciled eyebrows, insisted that the writer's business is to write and that writing...
Emerson's best letters were written to his family on his lecture tours. They considerably spoil the conventional picture of New England's Transcendentalist-in-chief as shy, frail and retiring. Because Emerson was surrounded by people like volcanic bluestocking Margaret Fuller, semi-insane Greek Scholar Jones Very, zany Poet Ellery Channing and "this Gautama" Bronson Alcott, myth has made him one of them. His letters show he never wholly...
...forgot the Concord saints. The men in the Maine train he found "independent, with sufficient manners and more manly force than most of the scholars he had known. (A pity, but why deny it?)" The Westerners were "grisly Esaus, full of dirty strength." Every forceful man in New England, he thought, had gone West. If his travels read like a drummer's timetable, his Abolition activities make lim look like a Balkan conspirator. Such behavior as his dining John Brown, "a real hero," might shock Concord, but Emerson snapped his fingers. It need not have surprised any who recalled...