Word: wister
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Scholar" among the greatest orations of its type); Carl Schurz, Charles William Eliot, Henry Cabot Lodge, Woodrow Wilson, Josiah Royce, Charles Evans Hughes, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The names of the poets include Everett, Emerson, and Holmes; William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Francis Brot Harte, Owen Wister, Barrett Wendell, Robert Frost, Bliss Carman, Alfred Noyes, and Stephen Vincent Benet...
...creator as a "backhanded compliment" to America (TIME. Dec. 8). Flaying the 50 academicians as a group, Mr. Lewis nevertheless made ten exceptions, evinced a weakness for: Nicholas Murray Butler (president of the Academy), Wilbur Lucius Cross, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, James Trus-low Adams, Hamlin Garland, Owen Wister, Brand Whitlock, Edith Wharton, Booth Tarkington. But the Academy, he declared, "does not represent literary America today, it represents only Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
...Author Wister had told how President Roosevelt a quarter-century ago visited an old southern city (his mother, Martha Bulloch, came from a fine old Georgia family) where an ambitious hostess contrary to the orders of the reception committee, persuaded him to enter her home on the pretext that he would thereby give profound pleasure to an old family slave on the brink of death. The President, all innocent of the trick, was her brief guest, took a cup of tea from an ancient Negro servant. Claiming that the family of the President's hostess had owned no slaves...
...Wister reported that, when he informed President Roosevelt of the ruse: "The President's face flushed darker than I had ever seen it. Then he shut his teeth with that familiar snap of his, as he said...
Apparently the hoaxing Southern hostess, still alive, had threatened a libel suit unless the story about her was eliminated, together with some uncomplimentary hearsay evidence on her social resourcefulness with which Mr. Wister embroidered his tale. Counsel for Macmillan advised the firm it would be less expensive to recall and revise than to face a libel action...