Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas W. Lamont, received last week a special permit to pass behind Lenin's tomb in Red Square, Moscow to the Red heroes' burial place at the base of the Kremlin Wall. His mission was to investigate the grave of John Reed, U. S. Communist, journalist and poet. He found it intact. The first American to visit the grave since U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union William C. Bullitt placed a wreath on it in 1932, Corliss Lamont hoped to spike rumors that Reed's body had been removed and that Reed, because of his praise...
...airport in East Farmingdale, L. L. Captain Ugo V. D'Annunzio son of the late Italian Poet-Flyer Gabriele D'Annunzio, stalled the engine in his airplane. He hopped out, spun the propeller. As the motor caught and the plane began to move, Aviator D'Annunzio ducked the wing., missed the cabin, was knocked flat by the tail. The pilotless plane wheeled dizzily round the field, crashed through a fence, pinned a woman bystander against her automobile. The woman was hospitalized. Charged with third-degree assault, Flyer D'Annunzio was arrested, held in $500 bail...
...world of English portraiture may be thought of as a triangle with Mayfairish Photographer Cecil Beaton at one corner, the polished Royal portrait painters at the other, and Augustus John at the apex. Like Poet William Butler Yeats, whom he has often drawn and painted, John is a master technician with an extraordinary, romantic grasp of character. Born at Tenby in 1878 of parents variously described as Welsh or gypsy or both, he entered London's severe Slade School at 5 and quickly became the most brilliant draftsman in a shoal which included Sir John Lavery and the late...
...Samuel Williston, Dane Professor of Law and President of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Professor Williston is retiring this year, and this is his last year as the head of the Chapter at the University. David T. W. McCord '21 will be the Phi Beta Kappa poet...
...final part, a lecture on "Some-roots in English Poetry," Professor Hillyer decries free verse because it has broken with the traditions of English poetry. "It is quite clear," he adds, "that a good poet must be at home in his countryside and his world, and must be at one with the great spirit and traditions of the past." But it is hard to agree completely that new form cannot be found for new thoughts, and that such expression can not also be poetry. Be that as it may, however, Mr. Hillyer as a poet and a teacher has written...