Word: pseudonym
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...genius. Some are boudoir, some bedside scenes. Heloise and Abelard, separated for life, long for each other and finally share a grave; Byron, fair, fattish and 40, dies of fever at Missolonghi; Goethe walks through the night to one of his many assignations; Oscar Wilde, under his enforced pseudonym of Sebastian Melmoth, dies a pariah at the Hotel d'Alsace in Paris; George Sand and Alfred de Musset kiss and wrangle; Tolstoy, in his last illness, flees his troublesome wife and dies on a hard bench in the railway station at Astapovo...
...Dine is the murder-case pseudonym of Willard Huntington Wright, art critic and onetime editor of Smart Set (TIME, Sept. 10, PEOPLE.) The Canary Murder Case is, far and away, his best...
...mist sweep by. A lover of fine typography, Yeats himself prints books. His press is part of the Cuala Industries run by the Yeats family -one sister manages the embroidery department, another the hand-press, and a brother designs hand-blocked prints. Versatile, Yeats does sketches for Punch (pseudonym, W. Bird) ; served in the Free State Senate since its origin. Resigned last month in favor of the easier Riviera, he will be missed for his infrequent but shrewd comment on political matters-he, the poet-creamer...
Victorian England saw Charles Lutwidge Dodgson as a promising young mathematics lecturer at Oxford with his treatises attracting attention in academic circles. When in an unguarded moment he wrote "Alice in Wonderland," the use of a pseudonym did not serve to veil the identity of the author. He was annoyed at his trivialities attracting public notice--so annoyed that he snubbed the great Victoria when she manifested interest. He did not wish his professional career blighted by a light comedy reputation...
...Titillating is the presence in the U. S. of famed "Gaelic Sage" George William Russell, poet, painter, mystic, essayist economist, and editor of the Irish Statesman, who has intrigued many by his pseudonym...