Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...RANDALL WHITMAN...
...parlormaid use is good enough for me. . . . Your own writing, my dear Gosse, would be improved by idiom.'' Says Biographer Charteris: "Gosse . . . was deeply offended, and many explanations were necessary to avert the danger which menaced a friendship of forty years." An admirer of Walt Whitman, Gosse visited the U. S. to lecture, called at Camden, N. J., and spent a friendly hour with the barbaric yawper...
...which carried the "young priest's" exploit exclusively, saved money by dot-dashing the encyclical from Paris, where it was released at the same time as in Vatican City. It was later said that the young priest traveled from Vatican City to Paris with Monsignor Francis J. Spellman of Whitman, Mass. Thus had the Monsignor's party been searched or subjected to indignity U. S. Catholic opinion would have mobilized with double force...
This syllabus of culture, or notebook of Durant, lists: ten Greatest Thinkers (Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Copernicus, Bacon, Newton, Voltaire, Kant, Darwin) ; ten Greatest Poets (Homer, Author of the Psalms, Euripides, Lucretius, Dante, Lipo, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Whitman); 100 Best Books for an education (approximate cost, $300; time required for reading: four years at seven hours per week, ten hours per volume). Syllabuster Durant reviews his favorite modern philosophers (Spengler, Keyserling, Bertrand Russell), his favorite modern literary lights (Gustave Flaubert, Anatole France, John Cowper Powys), fills up the rest of his 426 pages with comments on his trips...
...Potent Californians are the trustees who meet this week to decide the question which has heated up many a Stanford alumnus: Shall Dr. Wilbur continue to administer the university from Washington, or shall complete control be given to Acting President Robert Eckles Swain? Among the trustees are: Banker Leland Whitman Cutler, of Bacon, Cutler & Cooke in San Francisco; Sugar Merchant Wallace McKinney Alexander, past president of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce; Board Chairman Frank Bartow Anderson of the Bank of California; Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times; Judges John Thomas Nourse Jr. and Marcus Cauffman Sloss; President...