Word: orphans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Elinor Wylie, 42, famed poetess and novelist (Jennifer Lorn, the Venetian Glass Nephew, Orphan Angel), wife of Poet William Rose Benet, of Manhattan, from a paralytic stroke; in Manhattan. She leaves a son, Philip Hichborn, Harvard senior...
Poetry is dangerous metier for so gifted a juggler. In saner prose she has twice acquired merit: Jennifer Lorn is exquisitely humorous for its very artificiality; The Orphan Angel, good narrative for all the beauty of its imaginative flights...
Where does a college student live? Where should he cast his vote? The answers, of course, vary with the students. An orphan student might have no other legal domicile than his dormitory. Perhaps any student's dormitory rooms are or may be his voting residence, since at most institutions dormitory space is leased for a whole year and most election laws require only a few months' residence...
...face in consequence almost financial ruin. May I send you a word of greeting to say how glad I am that so many of you are breaking through party lines to vote for a great American, Herbert Hoover. "Herbert Hoover has grown up in the clean country, an orphan wrestling with poverty for a living and an education. After gaining these with his great natural powers he was called to carry on from China to Australia immense constructive works at the head of armies of co-workers with whom he has never had a strike or a misunderstanding. ..." Mrs. Clendenin...
...Tradition of Lincoln, the Republican Party Offers Herbert Hoover for President. "True to the spirit of Democracy, it turns again to a man of the people for a successor to Lincoln the railsplitter, Grant the tanner, and Garfield of the towpath - to a blacksmith's son, an Iowa orphan and country schoolboy, raised by his own merits, to a plane of distinction in more fields of usefulness, than any man the nation has ever been privileged to place in the White House. . . . "His career is marked with the callouses of struggle and achievement. He has pursued ambition along...