Word: william
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Lewellyn Powys, 55, third of the literary Powys brothers (the others, Theodore Francis and John Cowper), descendant of William Cowper and John Donne; of tuberculosis; in Davos Platz, Switzerland. Ill off and on for 30 years, Lewellyn Powys underscored in his writings (best known: Ebony and Ivory, Skin for Skin, The Cradle of God) a hedonistic design for living : "We should grow less involved in society and more deeply involved in existence...
...There; assorted whistlers, fiddlers, ladybug plunkers whanged away at heart strings beyond the walls. But the tune that dampened the eyes of Warden Herbert ("Cap") Smith and beefy Deputy Tom Meikrantz was a Chinese prisoner's song, written and sung in quavery, North China dialect by Canton-born William Yun. (Yun was jailed six weeks ago for working the badger game on a wealthy countryman named...
Medical editors frown upon literary graces as Puritans frowned upon dancing. Almost all medical reports are warty with Greek and Latin jargon: "Etiologic factors" for "causes," "acute coryza" for "the common cold," "osseous structures" for "bones." Yet the modern physician's bible, Sir William Osier's Principles and Practice of Medicine, is a model of warm and lucid prose-human language conveying the fears and torments of sick human beings...
...fallen arches tramping through museums. To bring good painting to the family circle, many a low-priced art book, crammed with color reproductions, has lately been published in the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 23). Another venture in the way of such home museums was put out last week by William H. Wise...
Another Thin Man (Myrna Loy, William Powell, C. Aubrey Smith, Sheldon Leonard, Asta; TIME...