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...centres of native culture as Knoxville, Sewanee, and the hills of Tennessee. Most widely publicized of these has been the new agrarian group led by Poets Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, who condemn modern industrialized society, advocate a social order based on small farms, celebrate the forlorn gallantry of the pre-Civil War South. Although they preach the urgent necessity of living close to the soil, these writers advance their views in forbiddingly highbrow essays, in metaphysical verse that seems closer in spirit to the work of T. S. Eliot than to the hillbilly ballads of their...
...sentenced to death at Flemington in February 1935. Unanimously the 13 voting members of New Jersey's highest court upheld the trial court on all 16 contested points of law, declared that the German carpenter's conviction was "one to which the evidence inescapably led." In a forlorn effort to save Hauptmann from the electric chair sometime before Christmas, defense counsel considered appealing to the U. S. Supreme Court on an unindicated point of constitutional law, to the State Pardon Board for clemency, to State courts for another trial on grounds of new evidence...
...next cage roams the forlorn J. Ramsay MacDonald, "after three years as a Peripatetic premier, now here and now there, wandering like a lost soul over the face of the British Empire . . . hated by his former followers and ignored by his Tory colleagues." Winston Churchill, Sir Samuel Hoare, George V, Montagu Norman are less sensational exhibits in the British tent. But before the British Intelligence Service, the Marquess of Reading and Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon. who shifted a fortune of 85 million dollars Mex. to China to escape high taxes, the author pauses, describing their exploits with a shudder...
...Cold and forlorn...
...burlesque bum. Before that he had been an amateur in direct competition with Joe Cook, Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, Fanny Brice on Manhattan's lower East Side. In fact, these striplings once refused to appear in an amateur show with Savo because he was so small and forlorn that the audience always applauded him the prize out of pure pity...