Word: poetesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poetess Sarojini Naidu's daughter is not Latmaja but Padmaja (TIME, June 5.). Gandhi does not croak but only frogs do on this side of the world. Gandhi speaks...
...between his propaganda work to carry on a lengthy series of flirtations. None of them came to anything. His first few loves rejected him because he was too poor; after that he seems to have become shyer of committing himself. At least once he was proposed to (by Poetess Mary Abigail Dodge), but weaseled out of it. Between the ages of 60 and 80 he attracted poetesses particularly, but "though in two or three poems he even condoned illicit love, he retained his chastity until he died...
...Caleb Gushing. He is now working on a biography of Calvin Coolidge, though not an official one-Mrs. Coolidge has not given Dr. Fuess her late husband's papers. Mrs. Fuess changed his name to '"Jack" years ago because she could not bear "Claude." Once the late Poetess Amy Lowell asked him his real name. He told her. "Good Lord!" shouted the terrifying poetess, clapping one hand on his shoulder, the other on the shoulder of another guest. "Here's the time for tears. The three ugliest names in the world all here in this hallway. Claude...
Just before noon, when the fast was to end, a boy Untouchable began slicing and squeezing oranges. Little Latmaja Naidu, daughter of India's foremost Poetess Sarojini Naidu, tiptoed to the cot. St. Gandhi was too weak to raise his head, but from the middle of the cocoon his eyes flashed behind their thick spectacles...
Married. Mary Channing Wister, poetess daughter of Novelist Owen Wister; and Painter Andrew Michael Dasburg, 45, Guggenheim Fellow; in Philadelphia...