Word: poeticize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chinese Minister to the Court of St. James's is poetic Mr. Quo Taichi. His contribution to the London Naval parleys (TIME, Oct. 29, et seq.) to which he was not invited, is a bland little ideograph meaning "If you give naval equality to Japan you give wings to the tiger...
...smile on the face of Mr. Quo would not come off. He rejoiced that the U. S. and Britain had decided not to give wings to the tiger. That the tiger was proposing to sprout wings anyhow seemed to Mr. Quo a fact which he could accept with poetic stoicism. No one else in the world received with more perfect aplomb the dread, though long expected announcement of Japan's Privy Council last week that the Imperial Government denounces the Washington Naval Treaty, thus causing it to expire...
WITH paeans of praise from two such distinguished authorities as Stephen Vincent Benet and Archibald MacLeish, James Agee '32, president of the Advocate several years ago, has started forth on his poetic career with this slim volume of his verses. In this little book are presented a varied assortment of lyrics, several long poems, quite a collection of sonnets, and a curious "New Yorker"--like prose "Dedication...
...once personal to the poet and appropriate to the intention", Agee has formed the habit of expressing his individuality by seizing upon adjectives and forcing them to describe objects normally foreign them to describe objects normally foreign to their acquaintance, and that from a most unique place in the poetic line in question...
...project of an Eastern Locarno was cherished by Louis Barthou at the time of his assassination. What could be more in harmony with the romantic ideal of poetic justice than that the unrest growing out of his death should be used to foster this scheme...