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CALDWELL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States author remembered for novels about poverty and degeneration (1903-1987)
Synonyms:
Caldwell; Erskine Caldwell; Erskine Preston Caldwell
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Context examples:
Professor Caldwell shrugged his shoulders.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Just as Ruth's face, in a momentary jealousy had called before his eyes a forgotten moonlight gale, and as Professor Caldwell made him see again the Northeast Trade herding the white billows across the purple sea, so, from moment to moment, not disconcerting but rather identifying and classifying, new memory-visions rose before him, or spread under his eyelids, or were thrown upon the screen of his consciousness.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Martin and Professor Caldwell had got together in a conspicuous corner, and though Martin no longer wove the air with his hands, to Ruth's critical eye he permitted his own eyes to flash and glitter too frequently, talked too rapidly and warmly, grew too intense, and allowed his aroused blood to redden his cheeks too much.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Now there's Professor Caldwell—he's different.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
