Word: stevenson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...County (Mich.) Circuit Court, president of Federal Bond & Mortgage Co.; by his own hand (shooting); in Detroit. Long distressed by a grand jury investigation of his company's affairs, he left a note to the coroner: "My health is shattered and I am broken in spirit. . . . Robert Louis Stevenson's words might well be written of me: 'Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much...
...times a caustic but never a savage critic, Gosse made his reputation by discriminating paeans in praise of established figures, but he wrote appreciatively of such contemporaries as Algernon Charles Swinburne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Andrew Lang, Thomas Hardy, George Moore and many a younger man. It was to Gosse that Swinburne divulged his famed outburst against Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose reported remarks had offended Swinburne. When Gosse learned that Swinburne had written to Emerson, he said: " 'I hope you said nothing rash.' 'Oh, no.' 'But what did you say?' I kept my temper...
Author Daniel-Rops thinks Robert Balfour Stevenson did more than spin a yarn and preach a sermon when he wrote Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He thinks Stevenson indicated a psychological truth which he falsified into melodrama. The split personalities in these four stories are due not to drugs but to circumstance; the stories are dramatic but no fairy tales...
...picture," said Prodigy Ledger to a New York Times reporter, "is called 'On Board the Hispaniola,' and it's based on a sea story, the name of which I have forgotten." Apparently both the Times reporter and the Selection Committee had forgotten Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island too. A few days later indignant letter writers informed the Royal Academy that the picture was not only an illustration for Treasure Island, but an exact copy of the frontispiece of John Seymour Lucas' illustrated edition. Embarrassed, Sir William Llewellyn ordered the picture removed...
Died. William Stevenson Baer, 58, orthopedic surgeon, clinical professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Wartime chief orthopedic consultant of the A. E. F.; after a paralytic stroke; in Baltimore, Md. His chief discovery: a method of injecting sterilized oil into a stiff joint to prevent the reformation of adhesions. A later observation: that bone infections could be cured by the use of bluebottle fly maggots...