Word: poem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tower and there found--who comes to bring me a poem. But it be so void of humor I could not accept it and so, I hear, he sends it to Lampy. Whereupon he tells me this little stint be oftentimes very dull and I ought to write about such things as the Wellesley Senior who won ten dollars from an Eliot House Sophomore by swallowing the House Mother's goldfish! Both are still doing nicely in the Wellesley Infirmary. But I already too much of this and so to the office to note the schedule...
...Lecture Hall, are as follows: March 4, "The Old Way to be New"; March 11, "Vocal Imagination the Merger of Form and Content'; on March 18, "Does Wisdm Signify"; on March 25, "Poetry as Prowess (Feat of Words)"; on April 8, "Before the Beginning of a Poem"; on March 15, "After the End of a Poem...
...grows older, feels his passionate love for France and for the Republic increase!" This declaration the Right greeted with derisive shouts of "Zay! Zay!"-a pointed allusion to the fact that M. Jean Zay, the new Under-Secretary to Premier Sarraut, is a notorious internationalist who once wrote a poem in which the French flag was called a "dirty...
...frail Poet Laureate John Masefield explained that it was written while he had a bad chest cold, scrawled out with his left hand because California handshakers had disabled his right. The Hecksher Foundation for Children launched a drive for winter relief funds in New York City with a poem composed by chipper, white-bearded Philanthropist August Hecksher, 87. Excerpt: The stars, the stars shine brighter, Search thine immortal soul, Thy heart, thy heart beats lighter, What first we need is - COAL. In the weekly newspaper of Doom, The Netherlands, Wilhelm von Hohenzollern inserted an advertisement thanking the world Press...
...subjects for M. Maurois' pen are Lytton Strachey, Aldous Huxley, and Katherine Mansfield. His account of the way in which Strachey "reinstated Cllo among the Muses" is illuminating; and though he is delighted when Strachey in such portraits as "Lady Hester Stanhope" makes history seem "almost like a symbolist poem," he is aware that the truest history is never to be found in such portraits. On the interference of too much scientific knowledge and a too scientific point of view in the fiction of Huxley, M. Maurois is very just. And his analysis and estimate of the work of Katherine...