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Word: poetesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Composer Walton, one of the smart devotees of arty London Poetess Edith Sitwell, started out in the early 19205 doing clever satirical fluff. But when, in 1931, he burst from her mother-of-pearly cell with a fire-belching oratorio called Belshazzar's Feast, the international musical world sat up and took notice. His First Symphony, which followed, got him talked about in terms of Finland's Jean Sibelius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sitwell to Heifetz | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Carol's father, Prince (later King) Ferdinand, anticipated his son's later escapades by falling in love with a pretty young poetess, Helen Vacarescu; according to one version he eloped to Venice and renounced his right to the throne. Finally persuaded by his uncle, old King Carol I, to return to Bucharest, he was then married to Princess Marie, daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Playboy into Statesman | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...when others chopped theirs off at the nape. Her unforgettable name, unconventional personality and well-educated way with words constituted a triple threat against critical judgment; and nothing that anybody could say for or against her work could help or hinder her being popularly acclaimed the champion U. S. poetess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Food for Light Thought | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Widener Library Poetry Room at 4 o'clock, Miss Madeline Mason, poetess, will read poems from her forthcoming book, "Cage of Years." Free tickets may be obtained at the Poetry Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Madeline Mason, Poetess, to Read Own Poems in Widener | 5/11/1939 | See Source »

...strict Slade School. She carried a little suitcase instead of a handbag "because," she told the supercilious young Marquess of Donegall, "the damned thing holds more, you fool." One day she ran off to France with Señor Alvaro Guevara, a charming Chilean painter whose portrait of Poetess Edith Sitwell hangs in the Tate Gallery. Tentative little paintings by Meraud Guevara began to. appear in the Paris Salon des Independants. That was ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Modern Archaist | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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