Word: lear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...EDWARD LEAR-Angus Davidson- Dutton...
...limerick lovers the name Edward Lear has long (and incorrectly) meant the inventor of the limerick. To painters it has meant a third-rate landscapist of the second-rate British school. But when grandfather was a little boy, Edward Lear meant a big fat Book of Nonsense with a gilt cat bowing a bull fiddle on the cover. Inside were such "queery Leary" drawings and poems as the Owl and the Pussy-Cat,† The Moppsikon Floppsikon Bear, The Dong with the Luminous Nose. Last week Author Angus Davidson took this nonsensical Englishman seriously enough to publish his first biography...
...live, not always even from hand-to-mouth, in a California town. Upon them stumbles an aged Shakespearean ham actor (Art Smith), a runaway from the Old Folks' Home, whose playing on a trumpet delights his hosts andthe townsfolk. The old actor finally dies spouting King Lear, and the poet and his son are evicted from their little house, take bravely to the road...
...graduate of Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, Olson studied at Yale in 1932-33 as an Olin Fellow in English. In 1933-34 he worked on his Melville project, one chapter of which, "Lear and Moby Dick," has been published. After two years on the faculty of Clark University in Worcester, he came to Harvard as a staff member and graduate student...
...after the Suns had run up a frightening deficit under Charles H. Grasty (who succeeded Walter Abell as president of A. S. Abell Co. in 1910), an able financier came to the rescue in the person of Baltimore's Van Lear Black. Hearing whispers that the Suns were going down for the last time, Mr. Black brought from New York the It Pays to Advertise company under the direction of George M. Cohan for a special morning performance before a group of Baltimore businessmen who were guests of the Sun management. Before the show they heard an ode composed...