Word: sussex
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Israel Zangwill, 62, English Jew famed as the novelist who interpreted the London Ghetto (Children of the Ghetto); in a nursing home in Sussex, England; of a break down due to overwork. Attendant at several English elementary schools, he stated that he was virtually self-educated. His literary handicraft produced The Big Bow Mystery (written to prove that it is possible to contrive a detective story in which the criminal cannot be detected by a reader until the last chapter) ; Jinny the Carrier; The Melting Pot. He was once listed as the third most eminent Jew in the world...
Married. Sylvia Thompson, 24, English author of the "Hounds of Spring " (TIME, March 1) ; to Theodore Dunham Luling, U. S. artist, at Warnham, Sussex. Both were once students at Oxford...
...Bateman's Burwash, Sussex, a man of three score years and one packed his bags last week and journeyed in to London. One more honor was to be thrust upon him. Once more he must don garments in which he seems a bent and spectacled waiter whose mustaches droop. When he should stand up before the Royal Society of Literature to receive its gold medal, many a critical eye would be upon him. Dean Inge would certainly make some acidulous remark next day. Lord Darling might crack a senile quip upon the spot. And Louis Raemaekers would be there...
Startled Tribune readers scanned a two-column-wide editorial two columns long, which read in part: "Rudyard Kipling is dead. The herald of the right and might of empire lies silent amid the weald and the marsh and the down country of Sussex. England has lost the recorder of the glories that were hers in the day of conquest. The world has lost a singer." Amid the "weald" of Sussex, Mr. Kipling remained alive, did not sing...
From his quiet home at Bateman's Burwash, Sussex, Mr. Rudyard Kipling (cousin of Premier Stanley Baldwin, their mothers having been two of the four famed Macdonald sisters) contributed some verses to the British Gazette, the Government's emergency anti-strike newspaper...