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...this poetry does not come alone from a transient emotional flash. The bard in the Molpe did not compose his song on the spur of the moment. He had a helper who wrote out the lines. To properly write the lines of the song, the composer had to experience the inspirational cesiasy of the bard just as the bard needed some consciousness of craff as he sang. This refutes those who say that long and careful foil is foreign to poetry; through the mind of the poet as he works over his lines, rewriting and correcting, there is a subconscious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE MOLPE" IS TOPIC OF SECOND MURRAY TALK | 10/16/1926 | See Source »

Radioed Request. Signor Mussolini, who was carrying bricks as a stonemason's helper when young Austen Chamberlain was Civil Lord of the Admiralty (1895-1900), cabled the British Foreign Office last week his desire for a personal conference with Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. Underlings at the Foreign Office palpitated, scurried. The request of Il Duce del Fascismo was coded, then put on the air by a potent wireless transmitter. The radio operator of Sir Warden Chilcott's yacht Dolphin caught the message, carried it to Sir Austen Chamberlain. He, vacationing in Corsican waters, was soon steaming aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Mediterranean Conference | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...similarly eloquent of Nature, similarly unobtrusive, hardy and humbly fair to behold. It is the story of a Kentucky hill child, Ellen Chesser, groping instinctively through a scrawny, vagabond adolescence, with no attention from her roaming, horse-swapping, white-trash parents. The father settles as a tenant-helper on tobacco farms and Ellen's maidenhood is more stable. Her lanky, hungry little frame rounds out and her nature, though always puzzled, sensitive and secretive, is opened by friends, security and small domestic possessions-a heifer, a bed. She suffers through an inconclusive courtship by a yokel with a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

...poet, as a critic of poetry, as an inspirer and helper of young poets, as a biographer. Amy Lowell is a tragic loss to the country. Miss Lowell was the most versatile, and all things considered the most important American woman of letters. We shall realize only gradually what a keen and vital force in literature has been withdrawn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MISS AMY LOWELL'S DEATH STUNS WORLD OF LETTERS | 5/13/1925 | See Source »

...Graduate School of Education. He was also director of the summer school of physical education, an organization to which hundreds of men and women come each summer for instruction. Dr. Roger 1. Lee '01, who was responsible for bringing Mr. Geer to Harvard, was his adviser and helper in forming the department of physical education, and took charge of his case at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Lee said, in remarking on Mr. Geer's place in Harvard yesterday: "Mr. Geer had been connected with Harvard for less than six years. But no one thought of him other than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MANY PAY TRIBUTE TO MEMORY OF GEER | 4/2/1925 | See Source »

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