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Vachel

American  
[vey-chuhl] / ˈveɪ tʃəl /

noun

  1. a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “little cow.”


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My father, a true son of Sangamon County, would despair to know his own boy, with whom he strolled the grounds of Lincoln’s tomb trading lines from Vachel Lindsay, would make such a sloppy error.

From Fox News • Feb. 13, 2019

Hiram College is home to the Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature, which is named for two poets, Vachel Lindsay and Hart Crane.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 2, 2017

Even dedicated readers of poetry in our own time can be divided into two groups: those who know Vachel Lindsay and his work, and those who don’t.

From Slate • Dec. 27, 2011

Canadian-born Superintendent Vachel of the CID is called in to investigate.

From The Guardian • Jun. 30, 2010

"We do not know a young man of any more promise than Mr. Vachel Lindsay for the task which he seems to have set himself."

From The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems by Lindsay, Vachel