Word: landmark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later, Vanderbilt lost another landmark as courtly little Poet John Crowe Ransom (Grace After Meat), co-author of the famed agrarian manifesto I'll Take My Stand and a pillar of Vanderbilt's English department for 23 years, took a job at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. When his fellow poet and agrarian, Alumnus Allen Tate, wrote an open letter of protest to Chancellor Kirkland, Poet Ransom explained that small, hustling Kenyon had offered him, besides more time for writing, $5,000 a year and a house as against Vanderbilt...
...made $53,000 the first season. He made himself nationally famous by his lectures on Wagner, is still active with a children's music hour on the radio. Arthur Guiterman, whose verses in oldtime Life and elsewhere were for a generation as much of a U. S. landmark as the drawings of Charles Dana Gibson, still publishes skittish poems, but has in recent years tried more serious verse. Death and General Putnam-and 101 Other Poems (1935), his literary high, was boosted by many readers for a Pulitzer Prize. He is an expert on New York history, rich enough...
...screening of the inside stairway would also be provided for in any renovation of the Romanesque landmark...
This year's annual banquet is a landmark in the history of Harvard's comic magazine. Nathaniel G. Benchley '38, President, announced last night that among the speakers and former Lampooners present would be famous cartoonist Gluyas Williams '10. Likewise present will be John P. Marquand '14, author of the recent best seller "The Late George Apley...
...observer of horses in motion was a self-taught British sporting painter named George Stubbs. For eight years he studied the anatomy of the horse, dissecting carcasses, hanging articulated skeletons from the ceiling to move the legs with ropes. His Anatomy of the Horse, published in 1766, is a landmark in veterinary medicine as well as in art. But in his pictures, many of which were in last week's show, his hunters still galloped in the traditional hobbyhorse attitude, with all four feet fully extended...