Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first movie, two years ago, was "Live, Love, and Learn," made with Benchley, Robert Montgomery, and Rosalind Russell. "Benchley fell flat on his face and lay there dead drunk when he first came in, and when I entered, my trousers fell down and Montgomery drenched me with a bucket of water," recalled Woolley...
Richard C. Curtis '16, of Boston, lawyer, member of the firm of Choate, Hall and Stewart, a member of the Committee to Nominate Overseers, Directors and Members of the Harvard Fund Council, was named Chairman of this committee, to serve for three years, are Robert E. Goodwin '01, of Boston, lawyer, member of the firm of Goodwin, Proctor and Hear; Dr. William B. Parsons '10, of New York, surgeon, Associate Professor of Surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University; and John E. Toulmin '25, of Boston, Vice-President of the First National Bank of Boston...
Countrified. Weaver's citified verse offers the general public food for self-pity. The countrified verse of Maine-coast-man Robert P. Tristram Coffin offers it food for self-satisfaction. Those who read verse because they have an appetite for such food will enjoy reading Coffin's Collected Poems. Into the book Coffin has put some 250 lyrics and ballads, previously published in eight books and in 46 low, high-and medium-browed magazines; and he gives them a dramatic send-off with a 13-page preface in which he modestly blesses himself for being a good poet...
...kind of poetry, begins at home. "Poetry," to Coffin, "is saying the best one can about life." In his early work Coffin tried to say his best about life by loading his lines with mythological, chivalric, floral and religious references. But he soon came under the influence of Robert Frost (TIME, May 15), whose work helped him to see "poetry in common speech and people and in usual sights...
...After a transcontinental train trip in 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson (his fellow travelers called him "Shakespeare") tells what it was like to sleep on a board stretched between two seats, to wash in a tin dish on the car's windy platform...