Achras
Achras (family Sapotaceae) A genus of plants that includes
A. zapota (
Manilkara zapota) which yields the delicious fruit chiku, or sapodilla plum, for which it is now widely cultivated, and chicle, formerly the elastic component of chewing gum. There are 4 species, found in northern tropical America.
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Edwin Arlington Robinson's wretched wight: "Miniver Cheevy" and "La Belle Dame Sans Merci."
Magazine article from: ANQ; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...published by Robinson's poetic rival William Vaughn Moody in The Harvard Monthly. The magazine...Robinson's poems, published Moody's works frequently while the...27). Although Robinson admired Moody and the two later became friends...
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Anti-Imperialism in American Literature
Magazine article from: Peacework; 7/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...with 30,000 members, counted Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and William James as Vice Presidents, in what remains...Lee Masters, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and William Vaughn Moody--and many public figures--Jane Addams...
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25 things to do this weekend
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 11/10/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...Sunday at the Moulin Rouge in the Fairmont Hotel, 200 N. Columbus (565-7440). 4. Beauty in Bloom. The William Vaughn Moody Lecture Series will present actress Claire Bloom in "Triumph of the Bereft Woman," her solo portrayal of the...
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Texas Woman of Letters, Karle Wilson Baker
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History; 5/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...life became "worthwhile" for her (p. 47). After attending the University of Chicago, where she studied with William Vaughn Moody, she moved with her family to Nacogdoches, Texas, in 1901. The East Texas town immediately captured her heart...
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Fall in New England; Our six-state region offers plenty of places to enjoy fall foliage
Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA; 9/7/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...names from New York's literary and artistic set. This included renowned sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, poet William Vaughn Moody, actress Ethel Barrymore, illustrator Charles Dana Gibson (of Gibson Girl fame) and artist Maxfield Parrish...
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Sizing up leadership
News Wire article from: AP Online; 12/12/1998; ; 341 words
; ...sex, 1884. --- ``O ye who lead, take heed! Blindness we may forgive, but baseness we will smite.'' William Vaughn Moody, American poet, 1901. --- ``I think it's worth everybody's consideration. This is a democracy, a representative...
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Texas Woman of Letters, Karle Wilson Baker.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 5/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...life became "worthwhile" for her (p. 47). After attending the University of Chicago, where she studied with William Vaughn Moody, she moved with her family to Nacogdoches, Texas, in 1901. The East Texas town immediately captured her heart...
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Research on the prevention of reading problems: are kindergarten and first grade teachers listening?
Magazine article from: Preventing School Failure; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...reading problems effectively (Slavin, Karwiet, & Wasik, 1994; Spear-Swerling & Sternberg, 1996; Vaughn, Moody, & Schumm, 1998). Indeed, 88% of children who read below grade level at the end of the first grade remain...
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The effects of varying group size on the reading recovery approach to preventive early intervention.
Magazine article from: Journal of Learning Disabilities; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...tutoring programs for struggling readers, Elbaum, Vaughn, Hughes, and Moody (2000) noted that one-to-one interventions...intervention type, or both. To overcome this problem, Vaughn and Linan-Thompson (2003) carried out a study...
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Evaluating the practicability and sustainability of a reading intervention programme, using preservice teachers as trained volunteers.(Report)
Magazine article from: Australian Journal of Language and Literacy; 6/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...outlined guidelines that schools can follow to implement an effective volunteer tutoring programme. Elbaum, Vaughn, Hughes & Moody, (2000) supported the effectiveness of community volunteers and found that the tutors whose students made...
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William Vaughn Moody
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
William Vaughn Moody 1869-1910, American poet and dramatist, b. Spencer, Ind., grad. Harvard, 1893. After writing several verse dramas, Moody achieved wide success with the prose play The Great Divide (produced...
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Moody, William Vaughn
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Moody, William Vaughn (1869–1910),Indiana playwright...Eve (1912), remained incomplete at Moody's death, and none of the works was...of the whole world, needs healing. Moody's lyric Poems (1901) also recognizes...
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Faith Healer, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...Healer, The (1910), a play by William Vaughn Moody . [Savoy Theatre, 13 perf...sense of obligation to the dying Moody, knowing it would almost certainly...x201C;the most significant of Moody's dramas because the theme is...
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Drama
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...for time, money, and souls. William Dunlap (1766–1839...Bronson Howard, Clyde Fitch, and William Vaughn Moody. The second period of American...Thornton Wilder, Lillian Hellman, William Inge, and Edward Albee, among...
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The 1910s: The Arts: Deaths
Book article from: American Decades
...instructor, 15 February 1918. William Merritt Chase, 66, painter...12 August 1918. O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), 47, popular...and physician, 4 January 1914. William Vaughn Moody, 41, literary scholar, poet...
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