Word: tomlinsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...signers from England include Edmund Blunden, author of "Undertones of War"; Siegfried Sassoon, who wrote "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer"; Henry W. Nevinson, veteran war correspondent; H. M. Tomlinson, who was a war correspondent and also wrote "All Our Yesterdays." Among other signatories are H. G. Wells, Sir William Orpen. Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley, Leonard Woolf, G. D. H. Cole and the Bishop of Birmingham. New York Times
MANY undergraduates will remember with considerable pleasure the visit of H. M. Tomlinson to Cambridge in the Fall of 1927. The occasion of Mr. Tomlinson's coming to Harvard was an address in the Union on the general topic of literature. "Between the Lines" is the reprint of that address...
...Tomlinson's little book will appeal to many college men; there is a sincere and enthusiastic attitude towards life and letters in its pages that is certain to make it most enjoyable reading. Of his craft, this man, who has been often compared with Conrad, says, "Literature is different. It is not a profession, if we mean by that a means to food and shelter. It is, in a vital sense, a profession of faith; and it is well known that a man's faith evades every new concrete image to which he would reduce it. The most...
...FRANK C. TOMLINSON Ironton, Ohio...
...Author. H. M. ("Tommy") Tomlinson, 56, is described by a friend (J. B. Priestley) as looking at first glance "like a rather hard-bitten city clerk. At a second glance, he looks like a gnome. . . ." He was born in London's East End, among the docks; was a sailor, newspaper correspondent, war correspondent, literary editor of the London Nation and Athenaeum. Other books: The Sea and the Jungle, Old Junk, Under the Red Ensign, Gallions Reach...