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Word: llewelyn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Released on the promise that he would return "after keeping an extremely important appointment" in the afternoon, Richard Llewelyn Brill '42, of New York and Adams House, had the nurses at Stillman worried when he failed to reappear yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophomore Steals Out of Stillman to Stymie Scribbler | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

...William P. Jacobs, West Roxbury, Mass., Norman F. Johnson, Watertown, S. Dak., Eugene D. Keith, Richmond, Ky., Edward F. Kilroy, Roslindale, Mass., Melvin I. Kohan, Cambridge, Mass., Edgar C. Knowlton Jr., Fall River, Mass., Paul A. Lamothe, Arlington, Mass., Nathaniel S. Lehrman, Brooklyn, N. Y., Samuel Leiter, Chelsea, Mass., Llewelyn E. Liberman, Brookline, Mass., Irving A. Lipson, Dorchester, Mass., James B. McCandless, Pittsburgh, Pa., Avrom I. Medalia, Boston, Mass., Paul J. Miller, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Lawrence S. Munson, Granville, N. Y., Robert G. Nassau, Brooklyn, N. Y., Walter Nichols, Upper Montclair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN AWARDS GO TO SEVENTY--SIX | 11/18/1938 | See Source »

...Llewelyn Eric Liberman, Brookline, Massachusetts -- Boston Public Latin School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 243 Freshmen From Everywhere Win Scholarships | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

...Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium, convinced that he would soon die, Llewelyn Powys (pronounced Po'-is), then 25, came to a solemn conclusion: "There is no God . . . nothing matters as long as we remain healthy and alive . . . insensitiveness is the one cardinal sin." Still alive 29 years later, while continuing to think each year his last, Llewelyn Powys has succeeded in writing a half-dozen books which stand out for their acute observations of nature, their sensitive prose, their blend of pessimism and pagan delight in the "rabble senses." The most polished of the prolific Powys brothers (John Cowper Powys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Joyful Pessimist | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...English countryside to the paintings of Peter Breughel, from God to gypsies, Earth Memories is not the best example of Powys' writing. But its shortcomings are more than redeemed by Critic Van Wyck Brooks's eloquent introduction to the book, which pays a high tribute to Llewelyn Powys the writer, a higher tribute to Powys the teacher. "Let no one suppose," says Brooks, "that Llewelyn Powys is merely another nature-writer, eloquent, observant and persuasive. He has something to say to this age of despair and darkness, an age in which writers in all the tongues of Babel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Joyful Pessimist | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

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