Word: spenser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempt to prove, by digging nearly four feet to the tomb of poet Edmund Spenser, that Francis Bacon was the real author of Shakespeare's plays ended in complete failure...
...fills eleven large quartos, was offered to the nation at a price considerably less than its assessed quarter-million-pound value, in spite of a tempting U. S. offer of "any reasonable price." The Wise library contains first editions of nearly every famous English poet from the time of Spenser, in drama ranges from Gammer Gurton's Needle (1575) to Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln (1918). What the British Museum Library actually paid to get this sizable addition (biggest since 1846) was not divulged. Nothing official was said about the embarrassing subject, but it was unofficially felt that Thomas...
...white flag, she cries "White banners!", shows him that moving on to other achievements, turning the other cheek, is more heroic than fighting. Although few readers are likely to accept her counsel unequivocally, it certainly works out well in Paul's case. He writes a life of Spenser that wins him academic acclaim, later invents a better refrigerator that makes his fortune...
George Moore is not included in "Prophets and Poets," for he does not fit M. Maurois' definition. He has moulded no generations. He remained aloof from the public, and the public from him. In all probability George Moore will remain, as Spenser has remained a poets' poet, a novelists' novelist...
John D. Adams, of West Brattlebore, Vt.; Frederick S. Armstrong, Jr., of Weymouth, Mass.; Sidney R. Ballon, of Concord, Mass.; Spenser M. Beresford, of Philadelphia, Pa.; John H. Brash, of Norfolk, Neb.; Joseph J. Buckley, of Somerville, Mass.; Joseph W. Chapman, of Leadville, Colo,; Paul T. Choate, of Groton, Mass.; Warrick E. Elrod, Jr., of Atlanta, Ga.; Richard R. Evans, of Berlin, Mass.; Richard W. Galbraith, Jr., of Exeter, N. H.; Stephen S. Gracewski, of Thompsonville, Conn.; Robert L. Green, Jr., of Baltimore...