Kipling

[kip-ling]

noun

1. (Joseph) Rudyard 1865–1936, English author: Nobel Prize 1907.

Kipling

/ ˈkɪplɪŋ /

noun

1. ( Joseph ) Rudyard (ˈrʌdjəd). 1865–1936, English poet, short-story writer, and novelist, born in India. His works include Barrack-Room Ballads (1892), the two Jungle Books (1894, 1895), Stalky and Co (1899), Kim (1901), and the Just So Stories (1902): Nobel prize for literature 1907

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Rudyard Kipling was honored at a dinner at the club on April 2, 1898, where guests enjoyed beef fillet and lamb medallions alongside Chateau Mouton Rothschild, 1882 vintage, according to a menu preserved there.

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As the most lavish hotel East of Suez, it hosted literary heroes like Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham.

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He took it from Rudyard Kipling, I think.

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“It comes back to caveat emptor,” Kipling said.

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Kipling, a retired Los Angeles Times editor and journalism professor, said he doesn’t believe there’s much they could have done had they been in California.

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