Word: featly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Frost will discuss subjects closer to college life than these of his last two addresses when he speaks on "Poetry as Prowess (Feat of Words)" in the fourth Charles Eliot Norton lecture in the New Lecture Hall at 8 o'clock tonight...
Nevertheless last week's scoop by Chairman Howard was of the first magnitude. After his even more difficult feat three years ago in becoming the first journalist received by the Japanese Emperor since the accession of His Majesty, Roy Howard had to give his word not to quote one word of what the Son-of-Heaven said (TIME, July 3, 1933). Last week the Soviet Government not only permitted quotes but supplied Mr. Howard with a translation of what Joseph Stalin had said in Russian, this interview having been conducted through brilliant, saturnine Constantine Umansky as interpreter. For five...
...dates and titles of the four remaining lectures are; March 18, "Does Wisdom Signify"; March 25, "Poetry as Prowess (Feat of Words)"; April 8, "Before the Beginning of a Poem," and April 25, "After the End of a Poem...
...publicize the planting of an avenue of cherry trees leading to the birthplace of George Washington near Fredericksburg, Va., oldtime Pitcher Walter ("Big Train") Johnson undertook to throw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock River, thus duplicating the legendary feat of the youthful Washington. Promptly New York's noisy Representative Sol Bloom, Director of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission, offered to bet 20-to-1 that Johnson could not fulfill the legend. When Fredericksburg citizens raised $5,000 to make the bet, Representative Bloom cabled to the British Public Record Office which cabled back that contemporary maps showed...
...were acclaiming Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Discovery the horse of the year, Top Row went quietly about the business of winning races. By September he had won six. He had beaten Discovery once, with a 29-lb. advantage in the weights which considerably diminished the prestige of the feat. When in October he beat Discovery again, this time in the Massachusetts Handicap after smashing Discovery's track record, turf followers were more impressed. Nevertheless Discovery remained the horse of the year...