Word: whitman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upright in its reporting. Always it has been respected by pressmen, which is a sharp criterion. To work on its staff was a pleasure and an education, as realized by such famed personages as George Wilkins Kendall (one of its founders and a Texan pioneer), Lafcadio Hearn, Walt Whitman, Irwin Russell, Page M. Baker, Pearl Rivers (Mrs. Nicholson, mother of Leonard K. Nicholson, President of the Times-Picayune Publishing Co.), Stephen Crane, George W. Cable, Brander Matthews, Henry Rightor, Catherine Cole...
...great forerunner of the modern movement in your country was of course, Wait Whitman, I cannot say that I agree with Mr. Untermeyer in calling him the motivating force in modern American Poetry which I am now writing, I have had occasion to study Whitman rather extensively, and I greatly admire his power and spirit. There was a freedom and freshness about his attitude and work which has had a tremendous influence in the liberal and radical movements of this century...
...more or less restricted to intellectuals. Save for an occasional surreptitious exception the literature of the multitudes was as chaste as an Horatio Alger Jr. or a Mary Jane Holmes could make it. Who outside the intelligentsia read Beardsley, Beaudelaise, or could understand the more esoteric work of Whitman...
Hayne, last year's captain, gave a good exhibition, throwing Whitman, star lineman on the Syracuse football team, in two minutes...
...class: Stearns (H) won over Captain Jeffers (S) by referee's decision. 145-pound class: Aunger (S) won over Corson (H) by fall in 30 seconds. 158-pound class: Wood (H) won over Phillips (S) by fall in five minutes 55 seconds. 175-pound class: Hayne (H) won over Whitman (S) by fall in two minutes. Unlimited class: Captain Bradford (H) won over Vanarnan (S) by referee's decision...