Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted to file from Kavalla, but the telegraph official had never seen a cable in English before and his apparatus seemed to date from pre-Edison days. I tried to get back to Salonika by rail, but the train blew up before I got in. I tried to go by bus, but the busses were not running because one of them had smashed up on a mine the day before. The airplane was the only solution, but, although we went to the airfield daily, the plane did not come in until Thursday...
Vital Statistics. Age: 64 (born March 22, 1884, in a modest frame house in Grand Rapids). Ancestry: His father, Aaron Vandenberg, was of Dutch descent; his mother, Alpha Hendrick, of English. His father, a native of New York, moved to Michigan in 1878, where he went into the harness-making business. His elder half-brother Collins is the father of General Hoyt Vandenberg, new Air Force chief of staff. Educated: Grand Rapids grade and high schools, one year at the University of Michigan (1901-02). Married: in 1907 to Elizabeth Watson of Grand Rapids, who died...
...poems were few, full of ironic understatement, salted with a special diction (blending Biblicisms, Latinity. medieval English, Southern idiom) and peppered with paradoxes. Says Harvard's F. 0. Matthiessen: "Some of the best minor poems in our language...
Every other Saturday night, a little circle of up-&-coming poets got together in a Nashville parlor to bandy verses. The natural leader of the group was a courtly young (33) instructor of English at Vanderbilt University, John Crowe Ransom. Allen Tate, who was one of that group in the early '20s, has said: "There was never so much talent, knowledge and character accidentally brought together in one American place in our time." Some of them: Robert Penn Warren, Laura Riding, Donald Davidson, Merrill Moore...
...itinerant Methodist preacher, John Ransom was born and raised in Tennessee, educated at Vanderbilt and Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar). After a dismal year as a prep-school Latin teacher, he taught English at Vanderbilt (with time out for World War I) for 23 years. Until the Fugitives woke him from his "dogmatic slumber," Ransom was a conventional teacher who took few pains to inspire his students. The bumptious crop of younger Fugitives stimulated him both as poet and teacher. Ransom, say his admirers in the Sewanee Review, did not try to dominate; he attained more enduring effects...