Word: poetesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second Broadway appearance (her first was in last autumn's flop, The Romantic Mr. Dickens), sultry, handsome Diana Barrymore, daughter of The Profile and his second wife, Poetess Michael Strange, gives unmistakable signs of dramatic breeding, if not of dramatic royalty...
...human nature with his idealism. Muñoz Marin studied at Georgetown University, wrote for the Baltimore Sun, The Nation and Henry Louis Mencken's old Smart Set magazine, sold articles on Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters to South American papers. He married Muna Lee, distinguished poetess, speaker at Pan-American conferences, contributor to The New Yorker, onetime book reviewer for the New York Times...
...traditional love for France, more sentimental than rational. It is based largely on Lafayette and legend. When the French Government of Marshal Pétain asked for an armistice most of these U. S. citizens felt that their sentimental faith had been misplaced. They reacted much as did Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay in a sonnet entitled The Old Men of Vichy, which ended...
...brilliant surgeon of bodies but scarcely even aware of emotional anatomy. He has nothing but anger for his daughter's adolescent radicalism, nothing but contempt for his son's inability to stomach the medical school dissecting room. When the doctor gets engaged to a poetess (Ina Claire) she leads him into abortive attempts to approach his children. But finally his inability to move out of his insensitivity so alarms her that she breaks the engagement, leaves him to his steely bewilderment...
...society and hopelessly drifting; his daughter, Avis, bitter, cynical, trying to rip hell out of the old order through the Youth Movement; her suitor, as useless as Philip, but dividing his time between the Columbia graduate school and Madison Ave. bars. Into the turmoil comes Enid Fuller, woman poetess, who still clings to her faith in the good people, and Manfried Geist, a European refugee, already destroyed inside by the forces of hate...