Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mother Seton founded the Catholic parochial school system and the Sisters of Charity in the U. S. Today, 8,911 nuns of her order, eight colleges, 160 high schools and academies, 447 parochial elementary schools and many a hospital and asylum are her monuments. Last week, Rev. Leonard Feeney, poet and associate editor of the Jesuit weekly, America, argued her claims to sainthood in an eulogistic, lyrical biography.† Cried he: "It will be the signalization in time-for our newspapers (you know our flair for publicity?) will give it their largest headlines-and the commemoration in Eternity...
Born in Cambridge, Mass. in 1894, Poet Cummings first made his literary presence felt with a novel, The Enormous Room (1922), written after he had served in an ambulance unit and as a private in the World War. Readers of the book, which gave some remarkably detailed dirt on life in an internment camp, were aware that something new was loose in the literary world. What it was became only gradually clearer when Cummings published Tulips and Chimneys (1923) and six subsequent volumes of poems. With their peculiar typography, syntax, and use of words, these books struck most first-time...
Splitting the vacated positions, the Prime Minister last week appointed as Secretary to the Cabinet Edward E. Bridges, civil servant and son of the late Poet Laureate Robert Bridges; as Clerk of the Privy Council Sir Rupert Howorth, former Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet; and as secretary to the powerful Committee of Imperial Defense, Colonel Hastings L. Ismay, heretofore Deputy Secretary...
Enthusiastic biographers often go out of their way to find reasons for praising their subjects. But few have wandered so far afield as Tom. Antongini, once secretary to the late Gabriele D'Annunzio. To praise of D'Annunzio as poet, novelist, war hero and conqueror of Fiume, he adds praise of D'Annunzio as a politician, businessman, husband, father, and hero of many highly,publicized love affairs. He praises D'Annunzio's "savage modesty" and his desire not to have company in the bathroom when he was taking a bath. He even praises...
...Nile: "Praise to thee, O Nile, that issuest forth from the earth and comest to nourish the dwellers in Egypt. Secret of movement, a darkness in the daytime. . . . When he arises earth rejoices and all men are glad; every jaw laughs and every tooth is uncovered." From a poet 20 centuries before Christ: ."Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that hath not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which hath grown stale, which men of old have spoken...