Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enlisted at only 19 to fight for Italy during the World War, soon collared medals for "conspicuous valor." When Gabriele d'Annunzio defied the Peace Conference and President Wilson with his quixotic move to seize Fiume and make it Italian, one of the practical young fighters who enabled the poet to succeed in his at first foolhardy, then brilliant coup was Balbo...
...Logan's book, it is an association and a movement of which she is the founder and mainspring. Born Josephine Hancock, daughter of Chicago's famed Col. John Lane Hancock, elderly Mrs. Logan is not only an active art patron, an avid clubwoman, but a poet. She has written two books of verse. Lights and Shadows and Heights and Depths, and many lyrics including a Negro monolog entitled Longing...
When in 1925 Professor George P. Baker and his famous '47 workshop migrated to Yale, with his course went Harvard's 25-year position as a college which at least recognized the theatre. This new Poet's Theatre is one of the more vigorous efforts to reestablish the University's prestige in the dramatic realm. The movement is the fruit of persistent labor on the part of undergraduates, for little official recognition has been given the stage at Harvard since Professor Baker's regime...
...Poet's Theatre may well usher in a dramatic rebirth among students. Verse plays are appropriate vehicles lending themselves readily to every field, ranging in subject from modern burlesque to medieval liturgy. As such they should appeal to both artistic and popular factions. Nurtured from within by undergraduates, "Murder in the Cathedral" may well give cause for hope that Harvard is once more drama-conscious...
...eyed Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio solemnly informed General Achille Starace, Fascist party secretary general, that he was making "final tests" on a powerful chemical of his own devising so that he could dissolve himself. Declaimed the author of A Hundred and a Hundred and a Hundred and a Hundred Pages from the Secret Book of Gabriele d'Annunzio, Attempter of Death: "I am an old man and sick, so I am going to hasten my end . . . disdaining to agonize between bed sheets." Amended the 74-year-old eccentric's long-time friend Luisa Bacarra: "He was speaking...