Word: walts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Townfolk of Huntington, L. L, seeking to purchase as a shrine the modest house where Poet Walt Whitman was born, frothed when Owner John D. Watson demanded $30,000, frothed even more when Owner Watson advertised that its location was ideally suited for a roadside saloon...
Miss Cela Lee of the Stork Club in New York will sing during supper, after which there will be one of the first public showings of old-fashioned movies, which will include the first Walt Disney and some of the thrillers of former days with William S. Hart and Theda Bara...
...redolent of the woods, the swamps, and the plantation. Many chapters are titled with place-names, "Spaniard's Grave," "Millway Run," "The Copse," "The Ridge," "Sweetgum Spinney," "The Savannah," The hounds are catalogued, the author finding in the music of their names excuse for theft from Lyly, Burton, and Walt Whitman; "Bluebell and Burly, . . Old Drum, . . Rouster, . . Bugler, Fifer, Bounce, Nimble, Witchcraft, Warlock, and Wisdom. . . He told over their names, softly, for their names were autumnal melody ... Ringwood, Dashwood, Robin, Patrona, Pirate, Gadabout. . . Falstaff, Rockaby, Sweetheart, Tireless, Highlander, Pibroch, Chieftan, Crystal, Valkyrie, Beldame, Pickpocket, Tattler, Blackamoor, Dragoon, ... Tipster, Hector, Melodius...
...Fine Arts this week is showing a selection of Walt Disney's best. A rising school of criticism in this country ranks Mr. Disney as the foremost American artist. The furore produced for example, by "The Three Little Pigs", in merchandise, music, and mational thought, is unparalleled in the history of artistic phenomena. Besides Mr. Disney's delightful fantasies modestly called Silly Symphonies, replete with brilliant color, there is Mickey Mouse, man's only rodent friend...
Professor Charles Cestre will lecture on Walt Whitman this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Sever...