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Word: kiplinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The sun has set on Rudyard Kipling and his British Empire, but there are those less happy about it than, say, Jawaharlal Nehru and the editors of the Nation. Rudyard Kipling was a lowbrow genius, the classic case of a jingo word juggler whose skill brought out the heaviest sneers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ruddy Empire | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

Cruelest of all was the gibe of G. K. Chesterton, who took the one poem in which Kipling approached beauty, Recessional, a prayer for humility under power, and made of it:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ruddy Empire | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

Kipling is the wicked uncle of the modern British mind -the one they don't talk about, the one who went broke going to the wars and who died intestate, without visitors, in a Home. But now the belated floral tributes of highbrow attention have begun to come in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ruddy Empire | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

Boy from India. Rudyard Kipling ("Ruddy" to his friends) was born in Bombay in 1865 and buried in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey in 1936.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ruddy Empire | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

His father, Lockwood Kipling, had a job teaching art to the Indians. But India was regarded as an unhealthy place for growing boys, so at five he was boarded out in the home of a retired naval officer at Southsea, England. He was sent to the United Services College, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ruddy Empire | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

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