Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uniform and gait, swooning at the sound of a tire blowout, was pictured with Reporter Hudson Hawley, whom Wally made famous as the "Salut-ing Demon." In the hectic offices of The Stars and Stripes, Wally found other models: Editor Harold Ross, now editor of The New Yorker; Poet Tip Bliss, whose dog tried to bite General Pershing on his only visit to the office; Colyumnist Franklin Pierce Adams (F. P. A.); Mark Watson, now Sunday editor of the Baltimore Sun; Treasurer Adolph Shelby Ochs, now general manager of the Chattanooga Times...
...That poets have low incomes is no more news than that they are temperamental. But few people know just how little an eminent U. S. poet can expect to earn from his verse. Last week The Academy of American Poets released figures comparing the average annual earnings of poets with those of professional men, defining an established poet as one in middle life, with four volumes to his credit, and "unmistakably anointed by the muses." From his books this unlucky genius can expect to get about $250 a year. Poems sold to magazines may bring him another $250. But that...
Foremost young American poet and recent addition to the University staff, Archibald MacLeish yesterday termed his work as the Curator of the Nieman Collection as "being invented by doing...
When it was suggested that more data could be found on his life in Who's Who in which he is listed, the poet, who doesn't conform in the slightest to the usual pictures of a poet, laughingly said, "Not only that, but I can clean skates with my teeth...
...program which MacLeish intends to follow this year as Curator, while indefinite, was worked out by the poet and President Conant as a way to best meet the terms of the Nieman Bequest which was specifically for Journalism...