Word: hale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...care about the contents of food hampers carried on trains from St. Louis to Boston? The entire book is plagued by a frustrating discrepancy between minute detail and lack of any detail at all. While Matthews describes at length the life of Eliot's friend (and possibly fiancee) Emily Hale with a series of frequently fatuous anecdotes, we learn almost nothing about the influence of Pound upon Eliot's work. Any reasons for this are unclear, since the author was refused access to any really significant information on Emily Hale (the Emily Hale papers) while he was free to study...
...last word on the subject." It's just as well. Along with every other student of Eliot, the author asks sadly unanswerable questions; no writer can even hope to solve the haunting mysteries of Eliot's life until all existing information has been studied. At the moment, the Emily Hale papers (the bulk of a life-long correspondence) are doomed to dusty confinement at Princeton until January 1, 2020; and Valerie Eliot, the poet's widow and sole executrix, has so far felt bound to carry out her husband's expressed wish that no authorized biography of him be written...
Blayne Heckel at 145, Chris Millson at 167, William Hale at 177 and Dave Anderson at 191 all turned in stellar performances for Winthrop in winning their respective divisions...
...Harvard, too, Eliot met Emily Hale, an attractive Brahmin who may have been the most enduring love of his life. More than a thousand letters to her from England, to which Eliot migrated in 1914, form the most important part of the material locked up at Princeton...
...antique furniture and brightening the fresh cut flowers. The two aging men sat by a blazing fire, chatting easily. Getty, though suffering from Parkinson's disease and internal ailments, still can show flashes of the aggressiveness that built an oil empire. He speaks slowly and deliberately. Lindbergh is hale and well tanned. He looks his role-dedicated environmentalist and exponent of slow, carefully planned industrial growth...