Word: middletons
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...didn't want to play a role in the world." The thing she missed most was her children, whom she saw only secretly, at bitterly long intervals. The Lawrences quarreled not only with each other but with most of their friends. Their friendship with Katherine Mansfield and Middleton Murry "was the only spontaneous and jolly" one they had. And, as every Lawrentian knows, even that did not last forever. As for Lawrence's women worshipers, Frieda put up with them as long, as she could, then made a scene. One day in Taos, N. Mex., whither they...
...leanings toward Rome, is constantly baffled by the problems confronting a pedagog in the English public school. While masters worry over problems of faith and dogma, of pedagogy and discipline, of finances and families, the boys concern themselves with cricket, standing, good form, smut and tormenting "Wearie Willie." Young Middleton falls in love with "Tired Tim's" blithe young daughter and after certain vicissitudes marches bravely off to war. Bill Sikes is expelled for torturing young Carmichael who achieves top place in the form. Bill Sikes has nothing against young Carmichael. He is only annoyed to find...
...earned his music lessons by waiting on table in a summer camp; Paul Ward, whose last job was a clerkship in a restaurant supply house; Clifford Menz, son of a St. Paul lawyer; William Horne, a smiling, square-shouldered boy who runs errands for a Manhattan laundry; S. Powell Middleton who supervises the public school music in Mount Lebanon, Pa.; Jesse Wolk who farms in New Jersey; and Frederic Langford, 27, who clerks in a Manhattan book shop...
...document for the understanding of the controversy. Mr. Murry's book is valuable, as a key to Mr. Murry's psychology it takes rank with his life of Christ and his "metabiological treatise" on God. The excerpts from his criticisms of Lawrence's books give new substance to Middleton Murry's position as the ablest critic in England; it is unfortunate that the text should show him forth as one of the strangest men she has ever produced...
...instance: Lawrence had insisted that Murry and Katherine Mansfield should go to live with him, in New Mexico, which would certainly be a curious place for Middleton Murry of Oxford and Fleet Street. Murry said he was willing to do it "purely out of affection" for Lawrence' and Lawrence refused. Then, "If I went with him there simply out of personal affection, it was a pre-posterous situation if he continued to repudiate, in all his open professions, the worth of that personal affection which alone would take me with him. Further, if the plan was that we should simply...