Word: poetesses
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When the spinsters heard further that hussy Poetess Lewys had received letters of congratulation from Marshal Pétain, War Minister Paul Painleve, Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, the Poet-Ambassador of France to the U. S. Paul Claudel, they were but confirmed in the spinsterly opinion that...
Miss Hall has depicted sympathetically the mutual loneliness of two women; and told frankly how they appeased it in the classic fashion set by Ancient Grecian maidens on the historic Isle of Lesbos. This same theme was hymned by Sappho, universally esteemed by classicists as the greatest poetess who ever lived. To a London policeman or magistrate, however, the very words "Lesbianism" or "Sapphism" are unmentionable, vile...
Died. Elinor Wylie, 42, famed poetess and novelist (Jennifer Lorn, the Venetian Glass Nephew, Orphan Angel), wife of Poet William Rose Benet, of Manhattan, from a paralytic stroke; in Manhattan. She leaves a son, Philip Hichborn, Harvard senior...
Remarried. Louis Untermeyer, Manhattan poet; to Jean Starr Untermeyer, Manhattan poetess. In 1926 Poet Untermeyer divorced Poetess Starr to marry Poetess Virginia Moore. Said Poet Untermeyer: "I remarried my first wife because I usually love...
...crowd of frightened passengers to his stateroom. His name is Morton McMichael Hoyt; his wife is Jeanne Bankhead, sister to Tallulah; his brother, Henry M. Hoyt Jr., had committed suicide eight years ago; his sisters are Nancy Hoyt, writer of sophisticated fiction (Roundabout, Unkind Star), and Elinor Wylie, poetess (Nets to Catch the Wind), novelist (Jennifer Lorn). No one could guess precisely why Morgan Hoyt should have wished to leave the bright ship and the people who were chatting on the deck...