Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Optimist. Edwin Arlington Robinson was the only sizable poet the U.S. had between Emily Dickinson and the poetic renaissance around World War I sparked by Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters. Robinson found the poetic landscape "flowing with milk and water." He injected the gall & wormwood of realism. In general, he celebrated the individual, not by tracking the footprints of great men, but by tracing the soul-prints of weak ones. The Miniver Cheevys, the Richard Corys, the fumblers, the failures, the souses were not freaks to him but symbols of man's suffering...
...glasses of milk...
...rode to hounds at Lake Forest. He also began to take an active interest in international affairs; he joined the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations and eventually became president. He met and married one of Chicago's most attractive debutantes, petite and spirited Ellen Borden, of the milk family. They have three sons, Adlai, 21, and Borden, 19, students at Harvard, and John Fell, 15, at Milton Academy, Milton, Mass...
...approach to racing is basically sane and even serious, but with an upper layer of humor. There was, for instance, the time he sent Rusty Gate out hopelessly for the Saratoga Cup and, instead of riding orders, gave Ted Atkinson a sandwich, a container of milk and a wrist compass, remarking he might be out a long time...
...slogan, "We Live More Joyfully." A reporter interviews a worker on whether the slogan is true. Of course, replies the worker: "My wife and I work in a factory. I get up at 5 o'clock . . . rush to the dairy ... am third in line ... get some milk and the last two rolls. We are joyful that we have a breakfast. We leave for work before 6 o'clock, and there are still some seats on the streetcar. We are joyful that we can sit down ... When we come home, my wife gets the last four sausages...