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Word: musing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain's Poet Laureate John Masefield, whose job it is to muse on State occasions for a butt of wine or ?75 a year (he takes the cash), officially recognized a state of war. Poet Masefield, who once said: "The office of Poet Laureate is responsible for much of the world's worst literature," published a poem entitled Some Verses to Some Germans. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...spots lively, its blind spots clear to many a layman. If, as some charge, he prefers the exciting but doubtful facts to the sound but dull, even grudging critics admit that in The Navy: A History and Hail, Caesar!, Fletcher Pratt has coaxed some engaging new curves into the muse of history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Corporal to Coup d'État | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...Republican platform in 1936) that U. S. government shall be government of laws, not of men. A successful lawyer who turned poet (in 1923) as calculatedly as some lawyers turn politician, who made good at it by winning a Pulitzer Prize (Conquistador, 1933) and who supported his muse by diligent journalism, Archie MacLeish won the respect of Mr. Roosevelt and his Janizaries to such a degree that for two years past they have been contriving to draft him into their service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Library, Librarian | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...defunct) Independent, a religious weekly, none of his poetry was published. He scraped a barer and barer living from his farm. But meanwhile he was writing his intensest poetry. This intensity was the natural consequence of living face to face, side by side with a living Muse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Muse | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...staying in his first three books (A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval)-and his later books contain many poems that testify to his ability to stay. But he has written many poems about going, too-poems that unsay the unspoken contract between him and his Muse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Muse | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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