Word: walt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Without precedent," exclaimed officials, throwing up their hands in surprise. But there is something that approaches a precedent. Walt Whitman, now regarded by many as the chief fount of American poesy, was, shortly after the Civil War, ousted from the Treasury Department because atheistical tendencies were discerned in Leaves of Grass...
Adoniram Judson Sidney Lanier Matthew F. Maury James Otis William Penn Wendell Phillips Paul Revere Henry H. Richardson Benjamin Rush Philip H. Sheridan Benjamin Thompson Henry David Thoreau Noah Webster Walt Whitman...
...Poetry. Poet Jeffers is a simple man, himself more an instrument than a user of instruments. Comparable to Walt Whitman in spiritual stature, he sings, as did Whitman, rather by instinct than by a theory of prosody. Much prose, much "barbaric yawp" result; but the stories stretch taut, life quivers, poetry abounds...
...Edison, Henry Ford and Orville Wright might conceivably exercise a more far-reaching influence on economic development in America than four hundred minor "leaders" in business. Two non-college scientists like John Burroughs and Luther Burbank may outweigh how many scientific students of lesser rank? Mark Twain and Walt Whitman should count for something more than their absolute numerical ratio. And in the field of polities it is conceivable that Abraham Lincoln may counterbalance several thousand college-bred members of Congress. We face the old anti-eugenic doubt arising from the considerable role played in the history of the race...
...willing to pass on to other places news items which do not reflect creditably on itself, but it is not so. New York has a singular and inordinate appetite for self-advertising, preferably of an unfavorable sort, and evidently Brooklyn has become infected with the virus. The city of Walt Whitman and Henry Ward Beecher, not content with being known as the terminus of the subway, wants its own little murders duly credited to Brooklyn. A journalistic plot to make Brooklyn into an obscure hamlet of two and one half million souls must certainly exist. The Chamber of Commerce...