Word: porter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emerging group of Midwestern writers. Two more dissimilar talents have seldom been found in the same school. Edgar Lee Masters was a gruff, hardbitten, Kansas-born lawyer whose poems were bitter epitaphs on the wasted lives of a small town. Carl Sandburg, cheerful, intuitive, sentimental, had worked as a porter in a barber shop, sceneshifter in a theatre, truck-handler in a brickyard, a dishwasher, harvest hand, Social-Democratic Party organizer, newspaperman. As Edgar Lee Masters followed Spoon River Anthology with poems cut in the same pattern, but increasingly dry and progressively longer, Sandburg followed Chicago Poems with his songs...
...Masses reporter, who published his story under the pseudonym of "Porter Niles," wrote that he gained ready admittance to Mr. True's office by saying he came from Republican Party headquarters. Besides the imminence of the September pogrom, he learned from True that "Jews pay Negroes to rape white girls; Jews caused the World War and the Depression; Franklin Roosevelt is really named Rosenfeld and Jew Rosenfeld is insane; the Jews have been "plotting the destruction of Christian civilization for 500 years...
WILLIAM WALLACE PORTER...
...criminal violation of the Official Secrets Act were known to every Cabinet member, to high Treasury civil servants and even to Government printers, Britons last week awaited earnestly the findings of Parliament's Special Tribunal of Inquiry over which presided testy and upright Justice Sir Samuel Lowry Porter...
...clubs-which all goes to show that Harvard men know a good thing when they see it. "Harvard practically ruined me" was only the last part of the quotation. It also made me what I am. But now every man, ruined by Harvard, is seeking comfort on my doorstep. PORTER SARGENT Editor and Publisher Sargent's Handbooks Boston, Mass...