Word: rudyards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with various connections with Mr. Hearst's book publishing, magazines, newspapers. In foreign contacts he will be valuable, for Mr. Doran is an international figure. Famed in London are his professional feasts. He has known how to secure such authors as Sir Arthur Gonan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Arnold Bennett, Rudyard Kipling, Hugh Walpole, Herbert George Wells, Somerset Maugham, Frank Swinnerton. In the U. S. he has long been known as one of the very best people for very young writers to see. George Doran was never a man to turn away a novel because it was a "first." Consequently...
Learning that 250 Canadian authors would convene in Montreal this month, Author Rudyard Kipling, sailing from Montreal to England, expressed surprise that there were so many of them. Said he: "Wish them good luck for me. It's an awful trade. I mean...
When the revolution swept away the Tsar and the past, Futurist Mayakovsky appeared triumphant at Leon Trotsky's right hand. Like Rudyard Kipling, with whom Russians compare him, Vladimir Mayakovsky was at his best as a war poet. More than six feet tall, hairy-chested, huge-voiced, he toured Russia with lean, shrill Trotsky, the organ- izing genius who created the Red Army -today largest on earth.-To the soldiers the statesman would speak in his curt, compelling voice. Then, towering up from nowhere, the poet would take the platform, roar out his latest barrack-room ballad, put fight...