Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Gordon Lord Byron's "lameness was due to congenital clubfoot of the talipes equino-varus type, affecting the right foot only." Ill at ease with men the poet turned to women and there "his success to some extent palliated the pain which deformity had inflicted on his pride. . . . Byron died in uremic coma, a not uncommon end for le ban viveur." Christopher Columbus, after siring Diego by his wife and Fernando by the mistress of his widowerhood, contracted syphilis which Dr. Kemble contends is a New World disease. "With his limbs rigid and useless, his brain affected...
Richard Ellsworth Savage, first introduced in 1919 as a young Harvard poet turned opportunist among the glittering opportunities of the Peace Conference, is shown in The Big Money as a prematurely tired junior executive who works hard at being yes-man to J. Ward Moorehouse, the great stuffed shirt of the public relations world. When J. Ward finally falters, Dick Savage is right there to take over...
...minister's conception of Heaven is not much more valid than was that of Mark Twain, who in Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven pictured it as a place where people do what they always wanted to do on earth; where, on sheer worth, a backwoods poet from Tennessee takes precedence over Shakespeare...
Divorced. Robert G. Nathan. 42, poet and novelist (One More Spring, Road of Ages); by Nancy Wilson Nathan, his second wife; in Reno, Nev. Grounds: cruelty...
This same transitional poet ticked off the z's as follows...