Word: litt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Professor Robert M. Gay is a graduate of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, 1900, an A.M. of Columbia, 1901, and in 1913 he received the honorary degree of Litt. D. from Dickinson College. He has been Associate Professor and Professor of English at Goucher College in Baltimore, and since 1918 has been Professor of English and Chairman of the Department at Simmons College. Since 1922 he has also been Dean of the Graduate Division at Simmons, and he has been lecturer at Johns Hopkins and Boston University...
Professor Emeritus Kuno, Francke Litt, Hon, 12 and Honorary Curator of the Germanic Museum, in commenting on the article, said...
...mote-and-beam doctrine had its reiteration in a letter addressed by Tokutomi Kenjiro, famed Japanese littérateur, to U. S. missionaries, on the conclusion of the fourth decade of his Christian life. The Living Age republished from the Japan Weekly Chronicle...
Aldous Huxley, nephew of the great Darwinian, smart, fashionable, blasé, ice-cold, most devilishly clever of all the devilishly clever young littérateurs who make the waterside, of Chelsea inundate all London with lavender and mauve intellectual meanderings, has written down his opinion of the popular music of today. The essay has been published-in Vanity Fair. It defends the thesis that the evolution of popular music has run parallel, on a lower plane, with the evolution of serious music. Beethoven, ultimately and indirectly, is responsible for all the lan- guishing waltz tunes, all the dramatic jazzings...
Almost six months have fled since the Spanish Dictator, Captain-General Primo Rivera, exiled for criticizing his august régime the venerated littérateur, Don Miguel de Unamuno. And so, willy-nilly, off went the poet-philosopher, erstwhile Rector of Salamanca University to Godforsaken Puerto Cabras in the isle of Fuerteventura in the horrid, torrid zone...