Word: poultney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long ago the famed novelist-historian H. G. Wells picked up a fat autobiography entitled Seventy Summers, by one Poultney Bigelow, aged U. S. journalist-lecturer, son of a former U. S. Ambassador to France...
...quarrel between Poultney Bigelow, American author, and H. G. Wells, paradoxical British internationalist, waxes interesting. In Mr. Bigelow's recent book of reminiscences, he criticised the manners of Mr. Wells in no half-hearted way. Whereupon the British author administered through the press of his country the reproof valiant. Attached to his declaration was the thundering footnote, "American papers please copy...