Word: gibbons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author is a Jack of all professions -aviator, novelist, archeologist, biographer. His novels, written under the pseudonym of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, are in Scots dialect. His Earth Conquerors, a series of short biographies of famed explorers, was published by Simon & Schuster last autumn. The Conquest of the Maya has the official praise of Fellow of the Royal Society G. Elliot Smith, champion of the theory that all human culture was diffused from a common point in the Nile Valley...
...Abrams '34 of Long Branch, New Jersey, have been respectively awarded the first and second prizes in the Bowdoin Prize Essay contest for excellence in English essay writing. The awards carry stipends of $500 and $300 each. Boorstin's subject was "The Unspoken Laminations on History with Illustrations from Gibbon," while Abrams wrote on "The Effect of Opium and Other Drugs on English Literature...
CLOUD HOWE - Lewis Grassic Gibbon -Doubleday, Doran...
...knows, all Scotch whiskey is blended. So is Scots dialect. A blend not only of pungent Scots dialect and plain English but of symphony and satire, low comedy and drama that sometimes aspires to the tragic, Cloud Howe is a malty, fairly intoxicating brew. Author ''Lewis Grassic Gibbon" (J. Leslie Mitchell, British historian and archeologist) has already written one book about his heroine (Sunset Song), will write one more, but Cloud Howe stands sturdily enough alone...
...Herbert Hoover emerged from the West to go to Chicago's Fair. Near Gibbon, Neb., when a freight wreck stalled their train for almost half a day, Mr. Hoover played solitaire in his shirt sleeves. To a newshawk who boarded the train he said: "I'm sorry but I'm not discussing national issues," quizzed the newshawk instead about Nebraska farmers. At the depot in Chicago a crowd of 500 peered and cheered as Mr. Hoover stepped under the glare of camera flashlights. "I'm just a common garden variety of American citizen come...