Word: tristram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Ethel Mallinckrodt Dorrance, daughter of the late President John Thompson Dorrance of Campbell Soup Co. and heiress to one-eighth of his $150,000,000 estate; and Tristram C. Colket of Haverford, Pa.; in Radnor...
Engaged. Ethel Mallinckrodt Dorrance, daughter of the late President John Thompson Dorrance of Campbell Soup Co., heiress with three sisters and a brother of his $150,000,000 estate; and Tristram C. Colket, Haverford, Pa. broker...
Heinnecken, Quirino, Scaliger and John Stuart Mill, though the chief place must be accorded to the great Lipsius, of whom we are told that he composed a work the day he was born, concerning which there is the immortal remark of my Uncle Toby in Tristram Shandy.* There are many instances of pious precocity- such as that of the unhappy little puritan girl who (so Cotton Mather in his Magnolia tells us, and with evident approval) spent eight hours a day in a dark closet weeping and praying for the forgiveness of her sins...
...this poem are manifest the range of Robinson's observation and psychological insight, the keen light of his intellect, his irony, the lyric splendor that marked "Tristram" and the tragic intensity of "Cavender's House...
...where he writes most of his poetry. Shy, scholarly, academic, he is a 32nd degree bachelor, is famed as most reticent, most elusive, least known U. S. man of letters. Other books: Captain Craig, The Alan Against the Sky, Merlin, Lancelot, Roman Bartholow, The Man Who Died Twice, Tristram, Calender's House, Dionysus in Doubt...