Word: poetesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard for occidentals to understand. The British did not try, promptly clapped No. 2 leader Tyabji into jail near Navsari. Naturally smart St. Gandhi had not omitted to name a No. 3 leader. Automatically his whole vast movement for independence was turned over to her: Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, poetess and lecturer, aged 51, educated at King's College, London, mother of four, zealous social reformer, onetime president of St. Gandhi's Indian National Congress which authorized him to declare independence (TIME, Jan. 6), onetime member of the Bombay municipality. Perhaps with more guile than St. Gandhi or Judge...
...eight they knew about, revolving around the Sun as the earth does. A few , of Earth's inhabitants had known the news for some time. The late Percival Lowell (1855-1916), rich traveler turned astronomer, elder brother of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University and of the late poetess Amy Lowell (1874-1925), in 1915 had predicted the existence of another member of the Planet System on its outer fringe...
There are six Palfreys playing tennis, five of them girls. After Margaret, Elizabeth, Mianne and Sarah come Joanna and little John. Once their father, John Gorham Palfrey, Boston lawyer, good friend of the late Poetess Amy Lowell, asked them if they wanted a tennis court...