Word: whitman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Half a century old, the American Bar Association convened last week at Buffalo; heard itself praised extravagantly by Commerce Minister Maurice Bokanowski of France and George K. Montgomery, staff-bearer of the Montreal bar; took satisfaction from the presidential address of Charles S. Whitman, one- time (1915-18) Governor of New York; and settled to its business...
...notes "a curious lack of metaphysical power" in the U. S., but thinks this is only natural and temporary in a country that has been so busy. The U. S. will eventually see the vision too. Its insistence on the importance of the individual, i.e. Walt Whitman, is its contribution to civilization so far, and, being a capable manufacturer, it will some day add Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men, etc., to its already celebrated product, Liberty...
...Significance. After contemplating Walt Whitman, styled by him The Magnificent Idler, Author Rogers steps up to look at another post-Civil War celebrity, styled "perfect man," " drunken atheist, "equal of Demosthenes. The biographer's literary luggage is this time a collapsible suitcase full of modern stylistic, analytical, rhetorical tricks which make Ingersoll's oldtime silver -tongued bombast seem, by contrast, like the noises of a nickleplated nickleodeon. Undeniably, Colonel Bob was once important. He was, by force of personality, a sun about which minor political planets moved, forming an Ingersollar system. Now, no longer important, his outmoded heresies...
...ceremonies celebrated the 108th anniversary of Walt Whitman's birth at West Hills, L. I. The celebration culminated in an announcement by the Walt Whitman Foundation of its plan to establish "a liberal college of arts and sciences" in memory of the poet. One of the aims of the college will be to help modern U. S. poets obtain publication of their works. Camden was where Poet Whitman spent the twilight of his life...
Meanwhile, in many another city, honor was paid. In Chicago, for example, Dr. Morris Lychenheim, who has organized annual fellowship dinners since 1900 for all who wish to attend, said: "The Walt Whitman meeting is a town meeting...