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Cummings

[ kuhm-ingz ]

noun

  1. Edward Est·lin [est, -lin], e e cummings, 1894–1962, U.S. poet.


Cummings

/ ˈkʌmɪŋz /

noun

  1. CummingsEdward Estlin18941962MUSWRITING: poet Edward Estlin (ˈɛstlɪn), (preferred typographical representation of name e. e. cummings ). 1894–1962, US poet


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Correction: An earlier version of this article said John Lewis attended the event, not Elijah Cummings.

Cummings, however, has proven far more controversial and arguably less palatable than her contemporaries.

Cummings asks when I inform her in a hushed whisper how nervous I was to discuss these things when the office was so quiet.

This is when Cummings realized that it was time to debunk that “people like strong women” rumor.

The term is inspired by this line from the poet E.E. Cummings: "Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."

Again she touched bottom, and then turned her bow across the channel toward Sumter, firing two guns at Cummings Point.

Mr. Cummings glanced down, saw nothing, and when he looked up again the man with the pack had disappeared.

Ive heard Dr. Cummings, the pastor, say that he is told once in about so often that the devil is dead, Ruth said smiling.

We're just plain farmer people, and Helen's our kin, though if she was on the Cummings' side, I'd have some voice in the matter.

Although I wish Cummings would lay off this type of story, I am willing to read anything by him.

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