Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beniamino Gigli was painfully extracted after a tiff over a salary cut, the Metropolitan had been chewing its tenor arias with bare gums. Thirty years ago when the Met had Caruso, Bonci and Slezak, Tenor Bjoerling would have been as superfluous as a wisdom tooth. But as the French poet Rodolfo in La Boheme, Swede Bjoerling took his top notes in the best Italian manner. His hearers chortled as if they had never heard his like before...
This "someone" of the woodpile was a cavalier, Mr. Frost was saying. But that's what the poet was, too. He picked up his knowledge anywhere; he turned from task to task. This disturbed the Vagabond. He shouldn't know about things the way a scholar...
...with that twinkle in his eye, with that simplicity that couldn't be dismissed must be eminently wise. The Vagabond wishes he could hear Mr. Frost more often. Every time he sees the birch trees he will think of that lecture and the next time the poet of New England comes to Harvard the Vagabond will be there, sitting in the front...
Robert Frost, the noted poet, will give a reading of his own poems this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Emerson D. The meeting will be open to the public, and Theodore Morrison '23, assistant professor of English will preside...
Robert Frost, noted poet, will give a reading of his own poems tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Emerson Hall D. The reading, which is open to the public without charge, is under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund...