Word: harriet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poetry was founded by a frail, abstracted but determined spinster named Harriet Monroe. She spent weeks in the Chicago Public Library, reading up on contemporary British and American poets. Then she wrote letters to the ones who passed her muster, inviting them to join in starting a magazine to "give the art of poetry a voice in the land. . . ." The replies were enthusiastic; Amy Lowell sent a check for $25, and Ezra Pound (then in London) agreed to become Poetry's first, unsalaried foreign editor. Harriet Monroe knocked on wealthy Chicago doors (Samuel Insull, Cyrus McCormick, Charles Dawes), soon...
Today Poetry's editorial desk is in an office on Erie Street, the Bohemian fringe of the Gold Coast. Harriet Monroe's desk is shared by two poets whom she "discovered" when they were undergraduates: Marion Strobel, a youngish (52), energetic grandmother who coaxe? subsidies for Poetry from well-to-do friends of her socially prominent doctor-husband, and writes whodunits in her spare time; and tall, handsome George Dillon, 40, an elusive bachelor who won a 1932 Pulitzer Prize for a volume of lyrics (The Flowering Stone...
...last week, and busily pinching in waists, lowering hems. So was Manhattan's Henri Bendel, who was showing ankle-length skirts and padded hips. Nettie Rosenstein, the top designer of the mass-producing Seventh Avenue factories, was going in for padding and long skirts. Seventh Avenue's Harriet Harra went even further with a "wraparound" cocktail suit which would have made an Egyptian mummy feel at home. But Russian-born, beautiful Valentina (Mme. George Schlee) was almost as conservative as Sophie. Her hems were down slightly and her décolletage was down a lot. Said Valentina...
...subject of human bondage that she started an "underground" movement of slaves across the border into free Pennsylvania . . . and later to Canada. ... As her fame grew, Northern Abolitionists supplied her with funds and advice. She became, in time, the most famous Negro woman in U.S. history. . . . Her name was Harriet Tubman...
...Side Issues." Abruptly, Accuser Hughes attacked Senator Brewster because of a story which the Senator had given to the press-that a T.W.A. hostess had refused to travel alone in a plane with Hughes. The aviator produced an affidavit from Hostess Harriet Applewick. She called the Senator's remarks "ridiculous...