Word: harriet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walls. Revolutions threatened and populations starved. Joyce in Paris was close to starving too. But help came to him from U. S. and English expatriates. American Poet Robert McAlmon lent him money, Bookshop Owner Sylvia Beach began publishing Ulysses. Ezra. Pound, Idaho's great expatriate, introduced him to Harriet Weaver...
Owner of the Egoist Press, publisher of The Egoist, Harriet Weaver was a shy little wisp of a woman, terrified by the dramatic manners of the literary great she patronized. She has been called "an authentic but difficult saint." To Joyce she proved an angel. In 1922, to assure him complete peace of mind and concentration on his work, Egoist Weaver gave him a large sum of money outright. Most reliable information puts it at ?40,000 (about $200,000). With this gift Joyce's biography becomes largely a bibliography...
During his literary career, Professor Lowes has been a friend of some leading modern authors, including Joe Aikens, Harriet Johns, and Amy Lowell. He had a long conflict with Professor Irving Babbit here about Humanism...
...Poets for the Fair's Official Poem. Judges: William Rose Benet, Louis Untermeyer, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. For U. S. poets, the first prize is big money indeed-twice their average yearly earnings, about three times Poet Laureate John Masefield's yearly pay, equaled only once before, when Harriet Monroe, late editor of Poetry, wangled $1,000 for her official ode on the 1893 Columbian Exposition...
...pianist as well as a violinist, Fritz Kreisler is also widely known for his compositions, chief among them a sheaf of ingratiating light violin pieces (Caprice Viennois, Tambourin Chinois, etc.) which are played by all of today's important fiddlers. In 1902 he married a U. S. woman, Harriet Lies, daughter of Tobacco Merchant George P. Lies. Violinist Kreisler has a belief that if one has practiced well in youth, the fingers should hold their suppleness in later years. Says Wife Harriet: "He would be a better violinist if he practiced more...