Word: rudyard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...numerous premiers to figure in the Birthday Honors was Australia's ebullient Premier Joseph Aloysius Lyons, upon whose advice His Majesty acted last week in appointing Mr. Lyons to the Order of Companions of Honor. Popular was a posthumous gesture by King Edward toward the late Rudyard Kipling, who repeatedly refused a knighthood. The doctor who operated upon Poet Kipling in his last hours (TIME, Jan. 27), Surgeon Alfred Edward Webb-Johnson, received a knighthood...
What is more important, however, is the revealing light which such polls spread upon the mother University. When Rudyard Kipling's "If" is chosen favorite poem year after year, when milk is named as the most popular beverage, when Petty is universally regarded as the favorite artist, we cannot but feel there are evil forces afoot in Nassau. Something, as "favorite-dramatist" Shakespeare once said, is rotten in the state of New Jersey. Certainly the football set-up is not to blame. Coach Crisler came into his share of the boodle and Captain Constable was rail-roaded into several offices...
...fought side by side against "Jerry" (also known as "the Boche" and "the Hun"). Of all these warriors only "Tommy" had a last name. Thomas Atkins, oldest soldier of modern times, has been serving His or Her Britannic Majesty since post-Waterloo clays. Until the late great Rudyard Kipling showed what a dear fellow Tommy really was underneath his tough exterior, he was also known as "the brutal soldiery." Last week Thomas Atkins spoke up for himself, showed he was neither a dear fellow nor a brute, but a nice mixture of both. The wildest brawls and ruddiest language...
...made Manhattan "impossible." In Paris, she organized many a gala dinner which royalty attended, devoted much of her time to le phare de France, an institution for blind war veterans. Extremely fond of animals, her pet was a show chow, Chi-Chi. When she wrote its autobiography, the late Rudyard Kipling was moved to remark: "My, what an observing...
...copy of an unpublished poem by Rudyard Kipling which was rejected by an English magazine at the height of his career, and the author's original manuscript of the famous poem "Recessional," rescued from his wastebasket, are included in a memorial exhibition of Kipling's works now on display in the Widener Memorial Room and the Treasure Room of the Harvard University Library...