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The announcement that "Copey," alias Prof. Emeritus Charles Townsend Copeland, 'is to read at the Harvard Union next Tuesday, and that late comers will be given the privilege of gnashing their teeth at the closed door, does not go far enough. Is the radio audience not to have the joy...
The period of England's "dominion over palm and pine" [Poet Rudyard Kipling] is now forever over. . . . I have seen . . . in British India . . . how the masses are being affected. . . . No half-hearted measures will meet the situation. . . .
When it became known that Sir William Watson, British poet (The Heralds of the Dawn, Selected poems), was ill and in penury, a national subscription was started for him. Some of the signatories: Hugh Walpole, Rudyard Kipling, John Galsworthy, Eden Phillpotts, George Bernard Shaw.
With bitter, rhymed invective Pact Patriot Rudyard Kipling last week flayed the Cabinet of Socialist-Pacifist James Ramsay MacDonald for suggesting in a recent diplomatic note to other governments that "distinguished visitors" be discouraged from incessantly laying wreaths on the Cenotaph and the Westminster Abbey tomb of "The Unknown Soldier...
George F. Babbitt, of Zenith, Illinois, has won for American Sinclair Lowis the Noble prize for literature. Irishman Bernard Shaw and Indian Rudyard Kipling are the only other English writing authors to be raised by these letters of nobility. This graceful gesture to contemporary American literature is something of a...