Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grunion, or sand-smelt (Athenmdae), a little fish that comes out on the beach at high tide, stands on its tail and dances in the moonlight. But few Cahfornians have inquired into the reason tor this strange nocturnal dance. In the May issue of Field & Stream, Fisherman Neil Frost described a grunion run, explained the dance...
...They dropped sausages, blankets, hay, most of which fell into the sea. Slower but surer, Finnish and Soviet icebreakers smashed their way to the rescue. The refugees, horses and men alike, gnawed frozen fish. At the end of the third day, all but one or two of the frost-bitten fishermen had been saved, nearly half of the horses...
...gives good professional literary criticism by & large. The U. S. literary scene, when he is through with it, looks just about the same, though the literati look more real. For modern writers like Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, John Dos Passes he has not much to say; prefers Hemingway, Frost, Edna Millay. The book is a reliable and compendious guidebook, though its readers will sometimes suffer from a discomforting suspicion that its author's opinions will never wither from lack...
...Frank, Chicago, Illinois, J Frost, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, G. J. Gebauer, Tucson, Arizona, C. C. George, Washington, D. C., S. L. Guterman, Scranton, Pennsylvania, J. C. Hall, Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia, W. L. Hansberry, Washington, D. C. F. H. Harriman, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, T. J. Hawkins, Westbord, Ont. Canada, B. F. Hazen, Cambridge, R. W. Hidy, Cambridge, E. Higginbothom, Millbury, M. B. Howell, New York City, Noyenen Huang, Canton, China, K. D. Hutchinson, Greenwood, J. Irving, Cupar Fife, Scotland, G. S. Jackson, Portland, Maine, R. T. Kimberlin, Danville, Indiana, Son Kuan Ko. Hunan, China, A. Korb, Dorchester, D. H. Leiffer, Los Angeles...
Sirs: In your issue of Jan. 18, I notice you refer to Mr. Robert Frost as ''Poet in Residence" at the University of Michigan 1921-23. You may be interested to know that since 1926 Mr. Frost has been Poet in Residence at Amherst College although his title is Professor of English on permanent appointment. He conducts no classes, but meets the students informally. FREDERICK S. ALLIS...