Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, Lizette Woodworth Reese, 79, poet (A Branch of May, Wayside Lute), author of the sonnet "Tears," for 48 years a teacher in Baltimore's public schools; in Baltimore...
...drown your sorrows in Creme de Menthe. Promptly Judge Mack offered the investigating committee another candidate as its "poet laureate," reading from the works of their rate engineer, Robert C. Gilles: I'm rate engineer for the Mack Committee...
...National Publishers Association, onetime vice president of McGraw Hill Publishing Co. and longtime personal counsel to the late Charles Francis Murphy, Tammany boss, was not content to leave his Creme de Menthe jingle as his sole recorded effort, though he says: "No man likes to be known as a poet." He sought and obtained permission to recite to the inquisitorial committee another verse...
Among the exhibits permanently on view, there are many of interest. Probably most outstanding and of most value to students is the large scale model of the Globe Theatre in London where many of Shakespeare's plays were produced and where the poet himself acted. It is built to scale and all stage properties are shown with great care as are the details of the pit and galleries...
Healy's poem is published in pamphlet form for the benefit of the New Workers' School. It is indicative of his mastery of rhythm and sense. Healy s a poet who thinks, not the frenzied Vates of popular imagination. His "Portrait" bears the spiritual and ethical features of a contemporary figure; the broker, like the poor, is always with us, even if the knight-errant is dead and buried and has not even left a successor in the G-men. Healy's five stanzas are a study in free will; the last may be quoted here...