Word: lewellyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Lewellyn Powys, 55, third of the literary Powys brothers (the others, Theodore Francis and John Cowper), descendant of William Cowper and John Donne; of tuberculosis; in Davos Platz, Switzerland. Ill off and on for 30 years, Lewellyn Powys underscored in his writings (best known: Ebony and Ivory, Skin for Skin, The Cradle of God) a hedonistic design for living : "We should grow less involved in society and more deeply involved in existence...
...Kirk School in Bryn Mawr, Pa., then on to Bryn Mawr College. But college seemed dull after living with her dynamic father and his problems; after two years she quit to go to work for him as secretary. That was four years ago. Since then Father John Lewellyn Lewis has become the biggest Labor Leader in the land. Noted for her tact in cooling off his frequently angry visitors, Daughter Kathryn calls her father "Mr. Lewis" in his office, but is reputed his frankest, most intimate adviser...
Hugh Johnson was quite right that neither man was the kind to get himself bogged down in words. John Lewis' middle name is Lewellyn but he is the man who in some of the toughest years in one the toughest industries-Coal-put together the biggest single union in the U. S. Walter Chrysler's middle name is Percy but he is the man who as a young railroad machinist made his first mark by repairing a broken cylinder head on a locomotive in two hours to meet an emergency, who bought his first automobile just to take...
...trip will be under the direction of Lewellyn I. Price and Theodore E. White, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology...