Word: guested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...GUEST BOOK-Witter Bynner-Knopf...
...pseudonym, "Emanuel Morgan," declared them expressions of a new esthetic principle called spectrum. While the real identity of the author was carefully concealed critics and poets gravely debated the merits of this bogus verse and school, argued solemnly whether Poet Emanuel Morgan was a genius or a fraud. In Guest Book Author Bynner again reveals his keen eye for literary and other pretensions, his delight in exposing them with wit and a minimum of malice. Less frankly humorous than his verse play, Cake, less grave than his contemplative Eden Tree, Guest Book nevertheless contains several sprightly amusing poems, several that...
...onetime Nationalist Deputy Bernardo Garcia. He pulled out a gun. Somebody jostled his arm. A shot plunked into President Terra's shoulder. The crowd knocked down visiting President Vargas; his daughter fainted; an officer slashed the assassin over the head with a sabre. President Terra, followed by his guests, walked pleasantly out to his car, shouted, "They failed to kill me. Long live the March Revolution!" Hearing only the last and unaware of the shooting, the crowd affably took up the slogan they recognized. "Long live the March Revolution!" Later Dictator Terra presented the bullet to his distinguished guest...
...lessons. When he rose from messenger boy to vice president and finally (in 1927) to president, music was the most conspicuous of his bewildering variety of civic activities. He organized the Strawbridge & Clothier chorus, still rehearses it Monday nights and conducts its winter and summer concerts. He has been guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Orchestra, the Philadelphia County Prison Band. Composer of hundreds of choral works and organ numbers, the president of Strawbridge & Clothier is often seen jotting down melodies on sheets of ruled paper he carries in his pocket. He insists that the elevator girls...
Senator Gerry has never at any time been present at the Rettich residence as a guest or otherwise...