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Word: poeme (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sothern thrilled Manhattan during 1901, 1908, and 1916. In this opus the poet is represented making a bargain with Louis XI, King of France, whereby they exchange places for a short period. There is no historical basis for this romantic situation, which stimulated Playwright McCarthy's famed poem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Many a Mugful | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

Public libraries throughout the English speaking world were hard pressed to supply insult-snoopers with the poem. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Insulter Kipling | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...Case, is not S. S. Van Dine. But he does wear a Van Dyke beard. Also he confesses in the September American Magazine: "I am 39 years old-oh. well, call it 40, since my birthday falls next month. ... I have written since the age of four, when a poem of mine was printed in my home paper. ... I attended seven different colleges here and abroad [including Harvard]. ... I came back to America on the last western trip made by the Lusitania, and went to a sanitarium for two months." In short, S. S. Van Dine is Willard Huntington Wright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...Incredible Siberia* wherein a Chicago Daily News correspondent hears U.S. drummers' jokes told in ultima thule smoking cars; and 3) The Mind and Face of Bolshevism† still the latest and most potent Teutonic indictment of Soviet culture. Flayed in the latter book is the famed epic poem of Bolshevism, 150 Million, .by Comrade Poet Maiakovski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sovietana | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...short fairy tales and allegories; her 4,000-page novel was a distinct innovation, the first attempt at realism. Some say she was called Murasaki after the heroine of her famous tale; others (among them Amy Lowell) say that the Mikado whose favorite she was wrote her a poem: "When the purple grass (Murasaki) is in full color one can scarcely perceive the other plants in the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In All Dignity | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

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