Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tricks of this old trade. . . . The President had a private tele phone wire run from his bedroom to Mrs. Gait's house. He wrote her long letters. . . . The Library of the White House not supplying him with sufficient quotations, he called on the Library of Congress for poetic phrases. Flowers were ordered for her daily . . . purple orchids. These carried a special message . . . and when she appeared she always wore a single one high on the left shoulder." Thus did the late Irwin H. ("Ike") Hoover, longtime chief usher at the White House, describe in the Satevepost the nine-month...
...ported the discovery of what he thought was the legendary city of Sheba. with 20 towers still standing (TIME. March 19). At present Author Malraux lives in Paris, working for the publishing house of Gallimard. His first book (Limes en Papier} written when he was 20. was poetic prose. His five subsequent books have all been based on his experience in the Orient. One of them. The Conquerors, was translated, published in the U. S. (1929). Restless. fair-skinned, well-built, with large sad grey eyes that stare intensely past the person he is talking to, Andre Malraux loves...
There is a poetic tradition that he who opens a gold casket "shall gain what many men desire." Last January President Roosevelt sent Congress a gold casket. When it was opened it contained a brand new vest-pocket-size dollar, desired by many inflationists. Silverites soon began to clamor for a second precious casket from the White House. For a long time the President demurred. Last week to keep the peace he sent a silver casket to the Capitol. When Congressmen lifted the lid, they found its contents to be: three sops, a new tax, and some consoling generalities. There...
...Advocate's" verse is less impersonal. The prevailing voice breathes a mild Spring cynicism, satire for the religion of the University (J. Le B. Bolyell), and the defenceless pedantry of scholarship (F. Cole). The most poetic note is that struck by Mr. Stanford in his lines to Yvor Winters--a work of real craftsmanship and feeling...
...Poetic license. Soviet doctrine favors nationalization, not individual ownership, of agricultural lands (see No Philosophical Abstractions under Russia, Foreign News...