Word: hervey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking last night to a gathering which filled the new Poetry Room on the third floor of Widener Library, Hervey Allen, prominent American poet and biographer, outlined the value of Amy Lowell's life, and the effect of her strong personality on American verse. His lecture is the second talk in the room built in memory of Morris Gray '77, Amy Lowell, and George Edward Woodberry '77, and one of the talks of the Morris Gray Lectureship on Poetry...
...delivering the first Morris Gray talk of the year, Hervey Allen, widely known poet and novelist, will speak tonight on one of his intimate acquaintances. Amy Lowell. The lecture will be held in the new Poetry Room on the third floor of Widener Library, dedicated to Morris Gray '77, Amy Lowell, and George Woodberry '77, and filled with their priceless collections of rare and first-edition poetical works. The room is small and attendance at this lecture is limited of necessity. The talk will be held at 7.30 o'clock...
Married. Lady Perdita Asquith, granddaughter of the late great Earl of Oxford & Asquith, goddaughter of Author Sir James Matthew Barrie (who was present at the wedding); and Capt. Hon. William George Hervey Jolliffe of the Coldstream Guards; in London...
...feud roots go back even to the founding of the colony. In 1902 three young friends, Hervey White, the late Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, Bolton Coit Brown, fired with a dream that Poet-Painter William Morris (1834-96) had outlined to Whitehead at Oxford, started tramping through the eastern U. S. in search of a model site for an art colony. White and Whitehead roamed the Carolinas, but it was Brown who discovered Woodstock.? He sent for his friends. Ten thousand dollars was put up with which to buy land but the stolid Dutch farmers were as testy then...
...principals are F. Gardner Clough, Hervey White & friends v. Woodstock's Respectables (local residents who are not artists, who frown on Art). Chief enemy of the Respectables is Clough, for though White was founder of the colony and instigator of the Maverick Festival, Clough's press and marital activities have drawn most venom from churchgoing Woodstock merchants. He is editor of the Woodstock bulletin, a journal of Woodstock's art votaries,? therefore chief spokesman and defender of the colonists against "the hypocritical piety of Christians." When, at the 1929 Maverick an anonymous fiat from a "Committee of Fifty" warned...