Word: rudyards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before all London watched King Edward VIII follow the body of his father, George V to Westminster Hall last week, a quiet company gathered in nearby Westminster Abbey to watch the cremated ashes of Rudyard Kipling, housed in a marble urn, disappear into the shallow loam under the paved flooring where are mixed the dust of Tennyson, Dickens and Samuel Johnson. At the end of the quiet service the Abbey choir soared into Kipling's stirring Recessional. To honor Britain's great Imperial Poet, the third man in the 20th Century to be buried in the Poets...
...Crown to answer on Judgment Day why there was never created Sir Rudyard Kipling or Lord Kipling? To his grave without a ribbon to stick in his coat or a peerage which would have died with him, the Empire sent last week a man whom an Empire poll even now would doubtless choose as the supreme poet of Empire...
...Rudyard Kipling had his own explanation for why he was not made Poet Laureate and it had no reference to the Widow at Windsor. Some years ago an admirer involuntarily exclaimed, 'I always had thought you were Sir Rudyard...
...Mortuis. In saying nothing except good of dead Rudyard Kipling last week some slight difficulty was experienced by Poet Laureate John Maseneld. Said honest Mr. Maseneld: "To myself, who did not know Kipling's recent poetry, he is a Victorian poet, whose best poems are not yet as well known as they should...
...Died. Rudyard Kipling, 70, novelist, poet and storyteller; after a stomach operation; in London...