Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Archibald Marshall, 68, humorist, novelist (Peter Binney, Undergraduate; The Graftons; Exton Manor; The Claimants) ; in Cambridge, England. His 30-odd novels of quiet, peaceful English country life were compared, over his mild objections, to those of Anthony Trollope...
...impartial method of selection. Yet it must be borne in mind that the advantages of three years of study in a foreign land are many. A man develops a cosmopolitan culture, finds his intellectual, literary, and historical background broadening, his range of comprehension enlarging. Oxford itself, with its quiet and scholarly background offers the student everything his intellectual largeness is capable of absorbing...
...light of this speech, it is interesting to recall the origin of the term, Forgotten Man. In 1883 William Graham Sumner, then Professor of Political and social Science in Yale University, delivered an address under the title of "The Forgotten Man." Summer defined him as "the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes, and is never heard of out of his little circle." The lecturer then went on to say: "We all seem to be under the delusion that the rich pay the taxes . . It is the Forgotten Man who pays . . He works, he votes...
Died. Percy Avery Rockefeller, 56, son of the late William G. Rockefeller, nephew of John D. Rockefeller Sr.; following a stomach operation; in Manhattan. Little known to the public, he was a shrewd, quiet investor in a score of corporations. Year ago he resigned from the board of National City Bank whose onetime President Charles E. Mitchell he had backed...
Modern poetry, like experimental science, is always precocious to its day. Even William Wordsworth was once a misunderstood modern, a reprehensible revolutionary. Edwin Arlington Robinson, who last week published his eighth quiet narrative poem, was never considered a blasphemer of the literary gods, but once he was more modern than he is today. Now distinctly a member of the old guard, thrice crowned with the perishable bays of the Pulitzer Prize (1922, 1925, 1927). Robinson is by long odds the most respected living U. S. poet. In his 65th year this New England Browning still turns out a lengthy blank...