Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazi husband (Gustaf Gründgens, now head of the Berlin State Theatre), and produced a satirical political revue, Peppermill, in Munich, her birthplace. For this piece of audacity she had to flee Germany and her citizenship was revoked by Adolf Hitler. She met and married Britain's Poet W.H. Auden, like her a zealous antifascist. At the risk of her life, she returned secretly to Germany to get some of her father's manuscripts. Last year she arrived in Manhattan, applied for U.S. citizenship. Today she is engaged in the same trade as her father. Her angriest...
...Every child says "Heil Hitler!" from 50 to 150 times a day, is taught to venerate: Horst Wessel, a pimp; Poet Dietrich Eckart, a drug addict; Leo Schlageter, a railroad wrecker. (Minister of Education Bernhard Rust has frequently been confined in a sanatorium during violent attacks of insanity...
...Greenup, Ky., Hillbilly Poet Jesse Hilton Stuart (The Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow) got in a political argument with Constable Amos Allen, Democrat, said he was beaten over the head while his back was turned, threatened to leave the State for good...
...Peapack, Poet White has collected 68 poems, including five rhymed book reviews, some songs of "childbirth, paternity, and routine domestic disturb-ance," love songs and a few on cosmic subjects which he says he included only to keep his franchise. His dislikes-inverted sentences in TIME, the works of Walter B. Pitkin, publicity, perfume and economic theory-stir up Poet White only briefly, and the only really bitter work in his collection is addressed to Vittorio Mussolini, inspired by Vittorio's description of his "exceptionally good fun" bombing Ethiopians. Of TIME Poet White complains...
...Episcopal minister, rector for eleven years of Chicago's St. Stephen's, nicknamed "The Little Church at the End of the Road." Last week, upon the publication of Friar Tuck's latest thin volume of verse, Bishop George Craig Stewart named Rector Tucker the official poet laureate of the Chicago diocese...