Word: poetesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vassar's tall, pallid President Henry Noble MacCracken named the five Most Intelligent Women in the World: Angelica Balanbanoff, internationalist, author of My Life As a Rebel (TIME, Aug. 1); Halidé Edib, Turkish patriot, onetime Professor of Western Literature at Istanbul University; Sarojini Naidu, Indian poetess, friend & adviser of Mahatma Gandhi; Mme Chiang Kaishek, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Monastic also is Mrs. Ames's talent for smelling out incipient romances, nipping them with subtle but insistent notes. A young novelist, for example, may imagine that his walk with a poetess has gone unobserved. But next morning both parties are pretty sure to receive a cryptic note: "It is unwise to form youthful attachments," or "Sorry you missed an interesting discussion in the parlor." Yaddo is not bothered by rumors that it is a free-love colony. Nonliterary, nonartistic wives and husbands are not usually invited to Yaddo with their mates. Married artist-couples and their children...
...WORLD AT MY SHOULDER-Eunice Tietjens-Macmillan ($3). Good-natured, modest autobiography of a poetess who helped Harriet Monroe start Poetry, clearing up some minor points in the history of Chicago's pre-War literary life...
...SINGLE HOUND-May Sarton- Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Plaintive first novel by a 26-year-old poetess, in which an aging spinster in a Belgian garden brings peace to a tormented young Englishman, emotionally ravaged by an affair with a married woman...
When the velvet Poetess Elinor Wylie proposed this alternative to the ivory tower, she was not thinking of the millions who scuttle like rats and whiz like rocketing atoms through the subways of the world's great cities. The oldest of these subways are the dismalest: Boston's system, built in 1897, and Manhattan's Interborough Rapid Transit (1904) and Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit (1913). Those most conducive to human sanity are the clean, well-lighted neatly tubular "undergrounds" of London and Buenos Aires. Proudest and most ornate is the three-year-old Moscow Metro...