Word: walts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WALT DENNIS...
...Professor Chauncey Brewster Tinker, the Phelps heyday at Yale was passing. By then Billy Phelps's literary notions were not even modern in the eyes of the sophisticated '20s. They could not agree with him that the swing of Eddie Guest's verse was "perfect," Walt Whitman "nothing but a Sears-Roebuck catalogue with calliope accompaniment."* Some of them were interested in James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis. Phelps...
...Sample: Phelps's citation of Walt Disney for an honorary degree: "He labored like a mountain and brought forth a mouse...
...Captain Walt Sorgi, Dick Conlon, and Sherman Clark were the only local batsmen to touch the Coast Guard hurler. Sorgi's hit figured in an abortive attempt at a score in the last of the sixth. After singling to right, he was advanced when Clark walked, but was thrown out at the plate when Jack Gale pounded a ground ball to third baseman Patti. Other than that little flurry, the Crimson never threatened...
...Hollywood last summer Walt Disney, restless creator of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and many another cinanimal, was playing mental tiddlywinks with the idea of putting together a monthly animated-cartoon digest, roughly analogous in the motion-picture field to the spectacularly successful Reader's Digest...