Word: poetesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...across busy streets by the crook of Dr. Lowell's cane. Harvardmen know that their "Prexy" is rich, resolute, articulate, astringent; an authority on political science and campanology (the science of bells); A Lowell of Lowells, brother of the late Astronomer Percival and the late terrifying, cigar-smoking poetess Amy who used to proclaim: "I am the only member of the Lowell family that's worth a damn." Harvardmen know that Dr. Lowell was born in Boston, won a silver cup in 1875 for winning a mile race in 5 min. 14 sec.* was graduated from Harvard...
...actress, she played the same part in Manhattan's arty Provincetown Playhouse. Life began to go fast for Authoress Millay. She lost the manuscript of her play, was too busy to bother about it. Thirteen years later she found it again, among some old papers. Easily most popular poetess of the U. S., Edna St. Vincent Millay could afford now to foist off on her sympathetic public almost any callow piece of juvenilia. But The Princess Marries the Page is surprisingly, delightfully neither callow nor juvenile. A Princess, "the most beautiful Princess you have ever seen." is reading...
...most prodigious prodigy is the heroine, Halcyon Day, so named by her esthetically-minded mother, who on her death left her daughter with relatives in New York. Little Halcyon, under the guidance of her governess, a spiritual Mrs. Rosenfeld, soon blossoms into an infant poetess, has her own little sacrosanct blue chair in which she composes "Us on Tip-Toe by the Freckled Beach," and the even more famous "Lines to My Lover in Hell." When Halcyon's father, a hearty retired sea-captain, comes after her he is forced to wait with a delegation of Halcyon...
...trying to prevent the Gandhite Indian National Congress from holding its 49th session at New Delhi. Fifteen minutes after she left Bombay the Congress President, famed Indian Poetess Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, was arrested. Her successor as President, India's revered Pandit Mohan Malavija, was arrested as he reached New Delhi along with 369 delegates to the Congress. These arrests (in the opinion of British officials at the Vice-regal Capital) placed under lock & key in various parts of India some 50,000 followers of the Mahatma "including all who are nationally known...
...Author- At 15 Englishman Aldington (born 1892) had made up his mind that writing was the life for him, married a writer [Imagist Poetess Hilda ("H. D.'') Doolittle] to make doubly sure. But the War made a soldier of him, left him shell-shocked for nine years. This interim he filled up with separating from his wife, writing verse, translating some 20 volumes from French, Italian, Latin. Greek. Now, recovered, he spends as much time as possible in France and Italy, thrives on writing books about human vanities more, shocking than war's shells...