Word: broun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Savannah, Ga., has lived abroad, has sandy hair. When he was 11, Aiken saw his father kill his mother and then commit suicide. He was Class Poet (1911) at Harvard, among a generation that included Poets Thomas Stearns Eliot, the late Alan Seeger, Journalists Walter Lippmann, Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, the late Radical John Reed. Few graduates stick to their undergraduate determination to be a man of letters: Aiken did. Last year, after reaping the Pulitzer Prize for his Selected Poems, he took his wife and three children (John, Jane, Joan) to live permanently in England. Nearsighted, silent, excruciatingly...
...Russia book was written especially for native schoolchildren. America's Primer is a phrase book for those discontented, restless, loosely anchored, ever-thinking, rarely-doing citizens of the larger U. S. communities who grope for but seldom encompass Reform. They are the folks who discuss what Colyumist Heywood Broun writes, who when abnormally excited vote for Socialist Norman Thomas, both good friends of Author Ernst...
Shoot the Works! Nobody could accuse Heywood Broun of misanthropy. Weighed down by public woe, he has run for Congress on the Socialist ticket, flayed Mayor Walker in his World-Telegram colyum, and now, saddened by the plight of the jobless actors, has staged a cooperative revue. None but the players can profit. If the show succeeds they will be paid; if not they will be no worse off than before. The show's backers expect no profits...
...Broun, untidy and elephantine, acts as master of ceremonies. He contributes a philosophical sketch, "Death Says It Isn't So," which critics said belongs in no revue. He takes part in flippant blackouts-in one he has to wriggle his giant form under a bed. He sings. In his curtain talks he fingers his straw hat diffidently, looks incredibly happy when his jokes cause laughter, bewildered when they do not. Sample of the Broun humor: "I made a bet that Abie's Irish Rose wouldn't run a week. . . . Finally I bet that it wouldn...
...Other academicians elected last week: Doctors Henry Bryant Bigelow, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass.; Edwin Broun Fred, University of Wisconsin; Edwin Crawford Kemble, Harvard: Adolph Knopf, Yale; Robert Harry Lowie, University of California; Joseph Haines Moore, Lick Observatory; Robert Lee Moore, Austin, Texas; Herman Joseph Muller, University of Texas, and George Linius Streeter, Carnegie Institution, Baltimore. Xew president: William Wallace Campbell, 69. president of the University of California, director of the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton...