Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...near the tiny village of Locust Grove on the Chancellorsville battlefield, just four miles from the Wilderness thicket where Stonewall Jackson was mortally wounded by his own men, Lindsay Almond grew up. Lindsay did farm chores, worked nights with his mother at the kitchen table, learned to read and write even before he trudged off for the first time to the little white school a mile away...
Real poetry was not a part of "Wullie" Service's spirit, or his life. Even as an English-born bank clerk in Glasgow, he dashed off doggerel for the weeklies, and burned with an adventurer's ambition to make a million dollars, write 1,000 poems, and live for a century. In hot pursuit of these ends, he hopped a freighter to Canada in 1895, a ruddy-faced, guitar-playing, wind-drifted 21-year-old fiddle-foot with a Scottish burr. He worked anywhere, at anything-swilling swine in British Columbia, tending roses...
...knows that his words are being recorded): There are certain stages we are going to discuss today . . . I'm not going to disclose what the stages are, because I don't want to hold out any bait or anything like it ... I want you to write a piece of paper now to the effect that contrary to what you have said in the past, or written in the past, Dan Enright has at no time disclosed questions, answers, points, anything like...
...mournful Ds in all the courses; a teacher, major in physical education and science, took over an eighth-grade English class in an Ohio school, although she could not spell such a word as acknowledgment. "It is a frightening fact,"' Tuttle says, "that many English teachers do not write or speak as well as their more able students...
...time his stirring Symphony No. 6 had its premiere in 1948, when he was 76, musical history offered few parallels of such creative longevity. Yet Ralph Vaughan Williams went on to write three more symphonies. King George V gave him the Order of Merit in 1935, but he declined many other honors, knighthood included. He may not have attained the wide popularity of that musical Kipling, Sir Edward Elgar, but international professionals respected Vaughan Williams as the more important musician. And all England loved him as Sir Malcolm Sargent described him: "A darling fat man walking about clasping a bowler...