Word: joined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crowded places. Now it is at an occult buffet supper-after stuffing his poet's paunch with other people's helpings, he addresses his advances to his hostess, an elderly madam. He lands in the street. . . . Again, his patron tenders him a banquet. He refuses to join in the consumption of bourgeois food and makes his repast on wine from the highboy. His ejection follows a violent attack of temperament during which bottles crash on servants' skulls and the refectory is strewn with pulverized objets...
...after she had exhibited for six successive years in the Salon, one of her paintings was refused. Degas invited her to join the exhibitions of the Impressionists and she accepted with enthusiasm. Her style sustained an immediate and vast improvement; she lost the literary quality that had impaired her early efforts and began to work more blandly. She still dreamt sentimentally of motherhood, but she painted her concept like a realist; her children's eyes were the holy, sightless eyes of Correggio's cherubs but their bodies were the bodies of minute Frenchmen, hired for thirty francs...
...Thus the mother of Brooklyn's prodigious 12-year-old. whose poetic flights since the age of nine (The Janitor's Boy, Lava Lane)) have floored the pundits, made good Poet Erwin Markham grumble into his beard (TIME, Nov. 23, MISCELLANY) and won her an invitation to join the Society of Authors, Playwrights and Composers (Poet Thomas Hardy, President), the first invitation to any American since that other, rubicund Brooklynite, Walt Whitman...
...University; the second is that I am taking your circulars at their word and subscribing what I can afford at the present time; and the third is that very shortly I hope to be in a position to contribute a good bit more Until then, I want to join hands with the well-wishers of Harvard...
...away" from the Scripps people for five years, to manage the Indianapolis News during an historic fight with its townsfellow, the Press, and to start the Star for Publisher G. F. McCulloch. In 1905 he "went home," to join the Scripps Press in Cleveland and stay with it until last week. His one vice is the constant wearing of an incredibly old, battered, dirty straw hat, in the office, as he edits...