Word: llewelyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. Sir William Llewelyn, English artist; to be President of the Royal Academy, narrowly defeating famed Portraitist Sir William Orpen...
HENRY HUDSON-Llewelyn Powys-Harpers ($4). Two waters on the North American continent were grooved by the bow of Hudson's boat, and now bear his name to witness...
Last week in Cleveland, Bishop Frederick Llewelyn Deane of Aberdeen and Orkney, repeated a "bit of a jibe" about a woman (the U. S.) who rushed up to a kindly old gentleman (Great Britain), begged him to hold her baby (the League of Nations), then disappeared. Up rose Newton Diehl Baker to whom the League is dear. Said he: "I am not one of those who disowned the baby, bishop...
Skin for Skin?Llewellyn Powys ?Harcourt, Brace ($2.00). The three literary brothers Powys all gnaw without cease at the mouldering bones of old mortality. Llewelyn ("Lulu"), whose journal this book is, has best reason: for 16 years his lungs have harbored ghostly, blood-demanding tubercles. Yet Llewelyn is the cheeriest, takes himself least tragically. He lays life's grim intimacies bravely to heart: a fish taken unawares and frozen fast in black pond ice; a drunken quarryman who compares plowing the deep soil to sailing the sea; a wounded white-breasted hawk staked out for torture by African children...
...BLACK LAUGHTER-Llewelyn Powys-Hareourt, Brace...