Word: rudyard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Selections from Rudyard Kipling will feature the readings of Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, better known as "Copey," next Wednesday evening in the Upper Common Room of the Union...
...Since the death of Rudyard Kipling, the British Empire has found no louder rooter than little Max Aitken, the pulse-taking Express's Canadian-born publisher. The onetime bottle-washer came out with a long personal editorial upholding among other things the aristocratic principle ("an aristocracy of political heritage under the influence of a democratic vote"). But even Publisher Max had "no interest in rescuing Poland and Czecho-Slovakia from the gutter," was for the war only because the Empire...
...Wheeling "stogie" once achieved literary standing. When Rudyard Kipling wrote Captains Courageous he required something sufficiently powerful to make a worldlywise, traveled, smart-alec, young son of a rich American father so ghastly nauseated that he would fall overboard from an ocean liner in order, for purposes of the plot, to be rescued by a fishing smack. A Wheeling "stogie" did the trick-not an overdose of ice cream sodas, as in the movie version. The lad was no sissie...
...efforts of past years, which always discreetly hid the Japanese Army under lotus leaves, branches of mimosa and the burgeoning cherry, this year's poem was released in an inopportune week -a week singularly illustrative of the famous lines on the same subject by that other imperialist, Rudyard Kipling. Only way the twain were meeting last week was on the opposite sides of angry conference tables, or in overt diplomatic conflict...
...Light That Failed (Paramount). Ronald Colman, Walter Huston, Dudley Digges struggle with Kiplingesque stoicism through the somewhat dated heroics and stout fella philosophy of Rudyard Kipling's first novel, made into a picture for the second time. Ida Lupino (re-emerging after a long hibernation) throws a rousing fit of hysterics as the hoydenish model who defaces Ronald Colman's pictorial masterpiece just after he goes blind. Unfortunately for the tragic effect, cinemaudiences can see for themselves that the blind artist's masterpiece is a daub...