Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Revisionist Leader Vladimir Jabotinskv, Russian-born journalist, poet, essayist, who operates in Poland, preaches terrorism, believes in a militant Zionism to be defended by Jewish arms. Banned from Palestine, having left the World Zionist Organization three years ago, frequently called the Jewish fascist leader, Jabotinsky and his methods were decried by official Palestinian Jewry. Zionist-supporting Hebrew newspapers called for self-restraint, the chief rabbinate of Palestine condemned reprisals, the Jewish Agency for Palestine asked that Jews practice "discipline and constructive work" as the "best reply to Arab terrorism." Before London's House of Commons, Secretary of State...
Friendly biography by an admirer whose accounts of the poet's life have the effect of documenting some unpleasant aspects of his character, and whose tributes to Wilde's poetry make it seem dated and dull...
...Oursler said he thought the rejections showed good editorial judgment, hired Winchell for $100 a week to be the Graphic's theatre critic and conduct a column first called "Broadway Hearsay," later "Your Broadway and Mine." The first item was some verse by "W. W." entitled A Newspaper Poet's Love...
...several sizes too small for his barrel chest. As editor of his in-laws' magazine, forced to compromise between literature and margarine sales, he tore out his beard by the fistful. As a landowner he relieved the baronial monotony by inviting troops of guests, among them a radical poet who worked for the revolution by urging wealthy landowners to commit suicide...
Meanwhile, 31-year-old Carlton Cook, amateur lyricist, artist and poet of Denver, Colo., happened to read in a paper the text of a speech by Kitty Cheatham, a folk-song singer, which was delivered last year during International Women's Week in Budapest. "Can you imagine the effect," Miss Cheatham had asked, "if all the nations of the world would join together and sing Hallelujah?" These words were practically a revelation to Lyricist Cook. He too, like Bandleader Lopez, had long brooded over the U. S. National Anthem's imperfections, particularly deprecated such sworded sentiments...