Word: kiplingisms
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Putting aside such thoughts, Rudyard Kipling received the gold medal with a smile, spoke a few words of courteous acceptance which circled the world's cables: "Recognition by one's equals and betters in one's own craft is a reward of which a man may be...
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...
Died. Sir Philip Burne-Jones, 64, English painter, son of an even greater painter, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, cousin of Rudyard Kipling; at London, in a nursing home.