Word: maseneld
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...King George at a levee; the King and Queen had once invited him to be their guest at Balmoral; and each year he received a crisp Buckingham Palace invitation to the Royal Garden Party. Therefore in Bermuda in 1930 the news that King George had appointed John Maseneld to be Poet Laureate smote hard. Exclaimed Rudyard Kipling: "Writing is an awful trade-I mean...
...Mortuis. In saying nothing except good of dead Rudyard Kipling last week some slight difficulty was experienced by Poet Laureate John Maseneld. Said honest Mr. Maseneld: "To myself, who did not know Kipling's recent poetry, he is a Victorian poet, whose best poems are not yet as well known as they should...
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