Word: litt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Tess Slesinger (rhymes with messenger), 39, mordantly witty littérateur, whose early, bright promise as an author (The Unpossessed) faded when she became a well-paid cinemadapter (The Good Earth, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn); after long illness; in Hollywood...
...crimes committed in its own territory. Does this mean that the U.S. could wash its hands of the whole business? Many Americans would like to think so. Those who believe that the answer to the German problem is extermination of the German people-the most vocal of whom are Littérateurs Clifton Fadiman and Rex Stout-have few supporters...
Frost is noted for his traditionalism in poetry and his isolationism in politics. He, like Morison, holds M.A. and Litt. D. degrees. Dean Buck was one of the College's past winners when he was honored for his book "Road to Reunion...
...woman of letters (The G-String Murders); and Actor Alexander Kirkland, stage uncle of Junior Miss; he for the first time, she for the second (her first was Robert Mizzy, dental supplier); at midnight in her home at Highland Mills, N.Y. Best man was high-domed Pulitzer Prizewinning Littérateur Carl Van Doren. Gypsy, in a black crepe dress, black shoes & stockings, wore real grapes in her hair. Man & wife went off on a honeymoon "as far as our gas will hold...
...returned to Harvard for his Ph.D. in 1902. Since then he has received degrees from Oxford (D. Litt.), Glasgow (LL.D.), and Cambridge (Litt.D.). He is a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur...