Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went down the list of White House correspondents, many of whom were long known to the President. Ernest Lindley of the New York Herald Tribune had covered Mr. Roosevelt since he began his first gubernatorial term at Albany. U. P.'s Storm had been with him since the winter of 1929. Universal's Edward L. Roddan, International's George Durno, A. P.'s Francis Stephenson, Chicago Tribune's John Boettiger had been on the job since the Presidential campaign...
Fiene. Like the Brothers Benét in literature, Brothers Ernest & Paul Fiene have long held a respected if not dominant position in Manhattan's art world. Painter Ernest is the better known. He is well represented in many important collections, figures regularly in exhibitions, teaches painting to hand-picked students. Last week blond, bushy-mustached Brother Paul gave his first one-man show of sculpture and outgrew the title of "Ernest Fiene's Younger Brother" as completely as Stephen Vincent Benét outgrew ''William Rose Benét's Younger Brother" with...
...Joyce: "Nothing could be more true than to say that we all owe a great deal to him. But I, most of all, surely." Ford Madox Ford: "The first word you have to say about them [the Cantos] is: Their extraordinary beauty. And the last word will be: Beauty." Ernest Hemingway: "Any poet born in this century or in the last ten years of the preceding century who can honestly say that he has not been influenced by or learned greatly from the work of Ezra Pound deserves to be pitied rather than rebuked. . . . The best of Pound...
...super-editorial page, edited by the most important literary trust outside of the Book of the Month Club Board, presents nothing to waken the suspicions of its devotes. But the headlines (or whatever they are called) will give away the bad news that the editing quintet, in which Ernest Boyd represented the "unknown," has passed on much of its editorial space to complete "nobodies" in the literary world, obscure amateurs and pot-boiled professionals. It was the hope of almost every original Spectator subscriber that he would receive a short-and-easy-to-read newspaper in which he would only...
...pushed out into the unexplored wilds-across the Appalachians, over the prairies, scaled the Rocky Mountains and finally were stopped by the immensity of the Pacific Ocean." (Professor Thomas Henry Briggs of Teachers College.) It also permitted some sense: "The pioneer had mosquitoes but he was free from questionnaires." (Ernest Clark Hartwell, Buffalo's Superintendent of Schools...