Search Details

Word: millay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Died. Edna St. Vincent Milky, 58, fragile, elf-eyed poet laureate of the Golden Twenties; of a heart attack; in Austerlitz, N.Y. Daughter of a poor schoolteacher, Edna Millay was put through Vassar by a patron who admired her youthful verse. After graduation (at 25) she lived among the very poor, "very merry" bohemians of Greenwich Village, had a" fling at acting (she was briefly a Provincetown Player), wrote short stories (for Vanity Fair under the name Nancy Boyd). With the bittersweet impudence of her second book of verse, A Few Figs from Thistles ("Safe upon the solid rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 30, 1950 | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay was found dead at her home in Austerlitz, N.Y. yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pyongyang Falls, Reds Flee North; U.S. Closes Doors to Falangists; Oil Sent to China, Senate Hears | 10/20/1950 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Next