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Cummings

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Cum·mings  (kmngz), Edward Estlin Usually styled e. e. cummings. 1894-1962.
American writer. Best known for his lyrical and typographically eccentric poetry, he also wrote The Enormous Room (1922), an account of his imprisonment in France during World War I.
Cummings [ˈkʌmɪŋz]
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(Biographies / Cummings, Edward Estlin (1894-1962) M, US, WRITING: poet) Edward Estlin (ˈɛstlɪn), (preferred typographical representation of name e. e. cummings). 1894-1962, US poet
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Noun1.Cummings - United States writer noted for his typographically eccentric poetry (1894-1962)cummings - United States writer noted for his typographically eccentric poetry (1894-1962)
e. e. cummings, Edward Estlin Cummings
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Cummings reined in his horse when he arrived in front of him, gave him a pleasant salutation and invited him to a seat in the vehicle--"if you are going my way," he added.
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The Andersons and the Cummings have hunted so incessantly in the neighborhood of the Cape, that these animals have migrated to the equator, where they are often met with in large herds.
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Down the road, on the right hand, on Brister's Hill, lived Brister Freeman, "a handy Negro," slave of Squire Cummings once -- there where grow still the apple trees which Brister planted and tended; large old trees now, but their fruit still wild and ciderish to my taste.
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