Word: tennysons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dibdin, a fact or two about navigation and (for convalescence) one or two very short stories by Hawthorne, Daudet and compeers. In meagre fashion and with no lavish excess of ingenuity in arrangement, all tastes are catered to. There is a scientifico-detective story. There are lines from Lord Tennyson...
...Tennyson is the most appreciated of the English poets. The ear of even one unused to English can catch the beauty of his lines. But we have difficulty in understanding your poets like Browning whose meaning is hidden...
...delights to honor." Mr. Goldstein brought out, "were born in homes where children were many, not few. "Let me enumerate some," he said: "Washington was one of ten children. Napoleon was one of 13, Shakespeare one of eight. Sir Walter Secit one of 11, Fenimore Cooper one of 12. Tennyson one of 12, Carlyle one of ten, Phillips Brooks one of nine, Cardinal O'Connell one of 11. St. Catherine of Siena, one of the greatest women of her day and generation, was one of 22, and Franklin, whom all Americans rightly honor, was the tenth child of a family...
Died. Dr. Charles Lloyd, 85; in Manhattan, of pneumonia. In 1854, he charged half a league onward with the Light Brigade at Balaklava, in the military bungle immortalized by Alfred Lord Tennyson...
...Tennyson's exact words: That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies...