Word: pound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once during the seven-day ordeal did he drop his good-natured smile. Not once did his grey toupee slip askew in the excitement. Not once did he lose control over the deep-hidden temper which once sent him raging into the sanctum of the late Elbert Gary to pound indignant defiance upon the great steelmaster's desk...
Leaving Veracruz, the Norfolk and the Admiral reached New Orleans last week, found all the banks shut, no chance for his 500 sailors to receive their shore-leave pay or change the few pound notes they possessed. Admiral Drax summoned British Consul General Frank Gordon Rule and demanded $3,000 in cash. Consul General Rule went to A. B. Patterson of the New Orleans Association of Commerce and pointed out the good that this money would do to the various New Orleans institutions that sailors enjoy...
...DRAFT OF XXX CANTOS-Ezra Pound-Farrar & Rinehart...
...large school of present-day poetasters, where two or three literary lights are gathered together the name of another U. S. poet-expatriate is apt to be murmured with more respect. Less popular, less memorably chantable than Poet Eliot's neatly allusive threnodies, poems by Pound are trademarked by no less scholarship, by language that is both more violent and more obscure. A cat that walks by himself, tenaciously unhousebroken and very unsafe for children, Pound has been given a wide berth by U. S. publishers and U. S. critics, but his European reputation is nothing to sneeze...
Lewis Warren Dunton, Jr. '34, of Spencer, has been elected captain of next year's 150-pound football team, it was announced last night. Dunton, who prepared at Exeter, played left tackle last fall...