Word: poe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere deep inside Lincoln there was a kind of literary genius, as surely as there was in Edgar Allan Poe or Walt Whitman. It shines strong in his great state papers; it glows steadily in his lesser efforts. It is as unmistakable as the man himself, in the letter the President wrote Jan. 26, 1863, to the Union Army's Major General Joseph Hooker...
...last week in Washington when WAA publicly read the 16 pipeline bids, it was clear the kidding was at an end. The Big Inch Natural Gas Transmission Co offered $85 million in spot cash. A group headed by big-time gas men E. Holley Poe and Dr. Everette De Golyer topped the $146 million cost of the lines by offering $260 million for a 40-year lease...
...merely two longish stories (the other: The Trod), both typical old-style Blackwood: sinister, spooky, uncanny. To the literal-minded, such writing appears to be raving nonsense. So, in one sense, it surely is, but Blackwood is almost as artful at making it seem plausible as Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's stories are mysterious and terrifying, but for the most part they can be explained in perfectly rational terms. Blackwood's, laden with monsters, ghosts, spirit voices and other fearful sights & sounds, are usually inexplicable...
...tune, Song of the Apple), comedy shows and precisely timed modern, democratic plays (John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln). The most popular storyteller, sad-faced, bowlegged Musei, dropped the tale of Sugato Sanshiro, the legendary judo champ, and picked up the Arabian Nights, Aesop's Fables, Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Louis Stevenson. He even did a five-night version of Gone With the Wind...
...form of detective story originated by Poe and Conan Doyle still exists today in the U.S., side by side with a distinctively American genre originated by Dashiell Hammett (The Thin Man). Craig Rice is virtually the only woman of this school-with the possible exception of Gypsy Rose Lee, with whom Craig lived one summer in Connecticut while she was writing Mother Finds a Body and Having Wonderful Crime...