Word: esme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Died. Esmé Stuart Lennox Robinson, 72, Irish dramatist (The Whiteheaded Boy, The Lost Leader, The Far-Off Hills'), a longtime director of Dublin's Abbey Theatre, short-time secretary to George Bernard Shaw; in Dublin...
...Married. T. S. for (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, 68, St. Louis-born, naturalized-British Nobel Prizewinner and brilliant, brittle poet of time and mortality (The Waste Land, Four Quartets); and Esmé Valerie Fletcher, 30, for seven years his private secretary at Faber & Faber, Ltd., London publishing firm of which he is a director; he for the second time (his first wife, whom he married in 1915, died in 1947), she for the first; in an Anglican ceremony in London's St. Barnabas Church (Kensington) held at 6:15 a.m. to avoid Fleet Street newsbeagles. Obscurantist Eliot on the gulf...