Word: fergusson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this is done, one will like George O'Donnell's poem "Evening to Morning" for its simple but convincing imagery; he will think Laughlin's own poetry too simple, too bare. Because of its vivid picture, like a penetrating flash, "Mannikin," by Francis Fergusson, has strong appeal. On the other hand, one used to conventional poetry will tire of playing anagrams with the poems of Cummings; he will laugh at Robert Fitzgerald's surrealism, which Laughlin explains as the principle of redefinition by incongruity...
...rakish soldier. The girl was Annie Laurie. The soldier, one Willie Douglas of Fingland, wrote verses to her, offered to lay himself "doon an' dee." Annie Laurie's parents locked her in her stone-walled bedroom until she stopped her mooning, sadly consented to marry respectable Alexander Fergusson who had rich holdings in Cragdarroch down the glen. Willie Douglas went off and got married soon after. Annie Fergusson grew plump and placid. Nearly 150 years passed before Willie Douglas' poem was discovered by Lady (John) Scott, who married into Sir Walter's clan and spent half...
Other elections from the Harvard faculty were as follows: Edgar Anderson, Franzo H. Crawford, Chester L. Dawes, Jacob P. Den, John F. Ebersole, Sterling P. Fergusson, Cyrus H. Fiske, Henry Jackson, Jr., Matt B. Jones, Donald H. Menzel, Richard S. Meriam, Harry R. Mimac, Leroy M. S. Miner, Arthur E. Monroe, Robert H. Pfeiffer, William C. Quimby, Sumner H. Schlicter, Carle C. Zimmerman...
...GRANDE - Harvey Fergusson - Knopf ($3). Time moves fast in the U. S., but in the Southwest it goes slower than elsewhere. Of Spanish feudalism only a "wistful remnant" is left; of the two-gun bad men only legends remain. But both the land and its natives, says Native Son Harvey Fergusson, are much the same as they were 300 years ago. There are still 9,000 Pueblo Indians, out of an estimated 25,000 when the Spaniards came. Author Fergusson says the Navajos are the only aboriginal people in the U. S. that have increased, have multiplied five-fold...
...John Ernest Buttery Hotson, acting Governor of Bombay Presidency, was inspecting Fergusson College at Poona when a student, one Gokhale, rushed up and fired a pistol point-blank at him. The bullet struck the metal stud of a wallet just above Sir John's heart. Sir John rushed the student, overpowered him, had him arrested, went...