Word: kiplingisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First, his uncle, a hawklike French general, wedded him to the glorious cause of carving an African empire for La Patrie, with words that made Kipling's "Recessional" sound like a nursery rhyme. Then he was sent to a cavalry camp as a corporal, to fortify his stomach by...
Everywhere editors sought some comment not too banal upon Kipling, his medal, his words. . . .
The New York Herald Tribune aimed widest, fell shortest. With invincible puerility it secured from some 24 writers-five of them widely famed-lists of "their personal choice of the immortal dozen" writers casually alluded to by Kipling. Homer and Shakespeare were well spoken of by most of the 24...
More robust was the Chicago Tribune's response to this later day touting of the name of Kipling. The Tribune's editor frankly admitted that he had written Mr. Kipling's obituary long ago, had grown tired of seeing it around the shop. Why not slap it...
Startled Tribune readers scanned a two-column-wide editorial two columns long, which read in part: "Rudyard Kipling is dead. The herald of the right and might of empire lies silent amid the weald and the marsh and the down country of Sussex. England has lost the recorder of the...