Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Madame Sun Yatsen. She remains Russophile, she is now in Moscow, and she was sorely vexed when the "Nationalist Government" recently broke off its relations with Soviet Russia (TIME, Dec. 26, 1927). Therefore, last week, Madame Sun threw upon the side of Soviet Russia the enormous weight of her name and prestige* in China, by cabling as follows from Moscow...
...individuals who are responsible for the excellence or sometimes the existence of any college, the most important are often unheralded and obscure except to trustees or faculty members. Many people who know the name of the President of the University of Chicago, most people who know the names of its leading athletes have never heard the name of Dr. Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed. It belonged to a wise & able man who died last week when he was 85 years...
...them. Happily for the survival of the homely, story-telling songs of the U. S., Carl Sandburg, modern minstrel, has changed the order of things. For years he has trekked from one end of the U. S. to the other, reading the rugged poems that have made his name, poems of smoke and steel and corn-husking smarting with truth and vitality. Poems have been first part on his programs but songs have come before the end. He pulls up a chair, takes his guitar, strums a measure or two and then will come the woeful, repetitious story...
...took my mother's name, An' he leave my heart in pain, There's a man goin' roun' takin' names...
...BRONZE TREASURY-Edited by Harry Kemp-Macaulay ($3). Thomas Tusser, Soame Jenyns, Richard Yago, Theophile Marzials, Selwyn Image- even the name of the 78 minor poets in this anthology of the obscure, like their lives and their verses, are strange, flimsy and exciting. Author Kemp is sensitive to the fine moments when, for each, mediocre talent burned suddenly with an unsteady brighter flame. He writes their brief biographies with understanding and sympathy, better than he wrote his own and similar biography with its perhaps ironic title, Tramping on Life. For him these not great but very gracious poems have...