Word: william
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birthdays. King Carol of Rumania, his 46th; Aimee Semple McPherson, her 49th; Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, her 55th (see p. 19); William Richard Morris, Lord Nuffield, Britain's No. 1 automogul ("The Morris Car is a Ford with an Oxford Education"), his 62nd, Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, his 67th...
...LAWRENCE & SUSAN HIS COW-William York Tindall - Columbia...
...poets who became his friends were Vachel Lindsay, Sara Teasdale, Robert Frost, William Rose Benét and his wife, Elinor Wylie. Advised Lindsay: "Base the serious side of your criticism of poetry with the tone of Abraham Lincoln as a touchstone, and the criticism of humor on the tone of Mark Twain. . . . We must have a humorous standard. Young writers. . . have been offered every kind of freedom by the critics but this-the freedom to laugh...
...worshiping women is a thoroughly exploited subject; Lawrence and his worshipful cow is a new one. The cow, Susan, browsed in the backyard at Taos, N. M., and was regarded by Lawrence with genuine devotion. "The queer cowy mystery of her," he wrote, "is her changeless cowy desirableness." William York Tindall, a 36-year-old professor with a razor wit, has read everything that Lawrence wrote, everything (so far as possible) that he read, and everything written about him, simply to trace the path that led Lawrence to this love. The result falls into that class of scholarly production...
...Nearest competitor: The New Poetry, edited by the late Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson (Macmillan), 23,704 copies printed. Queerest: The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, edited by the late William Butler Yeats (Oxford). Choicest: The Faber Book of Modern Verse, edited by Michael Roberts (Faber & Faber...