Word: kay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time is the olden days; the place, an assiduously merrie England. Principal characters are two boys-Kay, a toad of a child, and the Wart, who turns out to be King Arthur. Kay's father, Sir Ector, is a ruddy country gentleman who wants the lads to have a proper "eddication," decides to hire a tutor. By accident the Wart finds just the man-one Merlyn...
Because such images are her best accomplishment, Kay Boyle takes rank as a vivid poetaster...
...much as a woman can, Kay Boyle swaggers too. St. Paul-born, expatriate since 1922, now settled in Megeve, France, Kay Boyle is one of the more uncomfortably brilliant short-story writers and novelists. In October she published her first book of poems, A Glad Day (New Directions, $2). Kay Boyle would have been considered a clever person in any age, except one in which cleverness outlived its welcome. Kay Boyle herself suspects as much...
...publisher, Laughlin brought out well-printed books of obscure verse by Dudley Fitts, Kay Boyle, essays by Yvor Winters, a novel, White Mule, by William Carlos Williams, three anthologies of new writing. Loading his car with copies of his books, he sells them himself, arguing with hard-boiled booksellers from Manhattan to Detroit, who almost unanimously urge him to get out of the book business. Books are merchandise, they say, which clearly rules out New Directions publications...
Richards, a literary critic and a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, wrote the first book about modern semantics, The Meaning of Meaning, with Charles Kay Ogden, a fellow Cantabrigian...