Word: poetesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Keeffe admits there is reason for her flowers and landscapes to be considered as symbols of the unconscious, her gigantic Black Cross, New Mexico] might suggest extreme asceticism. All of O'Keeffe's work, utterly original, has graphic cleanliness, economy, purity, a lyric quality suggesting that of Poetess Emily Dickinson...
...forefathers of this Boston Brahmin two Massachusetts mill towns are named. His older brother Percival discovered the canals of Mars and the planet Pluto. His younger sister was the cigar-smoking poetess Amy. At Harvard young Lawrence was a brilliant student of mathematics and never lost a foot race. Still proud of his fitness some 50 years later, he one day challenged Lord Bryce (The American Commonwealth) to climb a picket fence built around the Harvard athletic field. Bryce declined, but Lowell nimbly scrambled over...
...According to the "phase rule," detailed in Poetess Muriel Rukyser's recent biography of the late, great 19th-Century U.S. physicist Willard Gibbs...
...Full Length Portrait ($3.50), which recorded many unfamiliar details of George Bernard Shaw's childhood and lovelife. Others were Esther Forbes's conscientious, overlong Paul Revere and the World He Lived In ($3.75); Hugh 1'Anson Fausset's erratic but illuminating Walt Whitman ($3); Poetess Muriel Rukeyser's fervent celebration of the famously forgotten great man of science Willard Gibbs ($3.50) ; Franz Werfel's Verdi: the Man in His Letters...
Curvilinear Cinemactress Joan Blondell got herself a fresh hairdo, a new fur coat, headed for Greenland and Iceland to entertain the armed forces. Manhattan socialite Edith Kingdon Gould, linguist (5), ex-child-poetess, 22-year-old great-granddaughter of the late, great Robber Baron Jay Gould, joined the WAVES, went off to train at Madison...