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Word: poet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loud laughs, as in all up-to-date humor, are few, but E. B. W. sometimes unbends to such old-fashioned jovialities as pointing out the difference between a major and a minor poet: "Any poem starting with 'And when' is a serious poem written by a major poet. . . . Any poem, on the other hand, ending with 'And how' comes under the head of light verse, written by a minor poet." Or his suggestion for a digest to end digests, "which condensed a Hemingway novel to the single word 'Bang!' and reduced a long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Humorist | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Marshals Richard H. Sullivan 231 Robert L. Green 202 Francis A. Hardling 200 Treasurer Frank P. Davidson 103 Chorister Russell Greenhood 187 Orator Richard Lewis 105 Odist Ellsworth Grant 179 Poet Robert Anderson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Election Winners | 3/2/1939 | See Source »

...casting of ballots for the three 1939 marshals, treasurer, chorister, orator, odist and poet will take place today from 9:45 to 10:15 o'clock and from 11:45 to 12:15 o'clock in Harvard, Emerson, and Sever Halls, and in the House Dining Halls, including Dudley, at the lunch hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Snyder and Radway Excluded From Album Committee Ballot | 3/1/1939 | See Source »

...brawny lad of 20 before he heard there were any good living poets in Ireland, he published his first poems shortly after in the Irish Statesman, made a pilgrimage to Dublin. Tramping back to Mucker pronouncing the Irish gods and heroes dead, the fairies driven underground, Poet Kavanagh concluded: "Writers leave Ireland because sentimental praise, or hysterical pietarian dispraise, is no use in the mouth of a hungry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Late Plums | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...final list of the nominees for the first election of senior class officers was completed last night with the addition of the names submitted. Four more men were put up for election for Class Marshal, one for treasurer, two for Class Poet, and one each for Odist and Chorister...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIOR OFFICERS NAMES READY FOR INITIAL ELECTION | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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