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Word: arens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just walk away from the dancing, this way, across the tennis courts. The stars are out, aren't they? Why, I can carry it. Well. The pines look dark and cool there, don't they? Yes, but I think it's more like a poem by Sand-burg: "In the dusk, in the cool tombs." Tombs of what? Oh, tombs of all the summer boys like you, who say so much they don't mean...

Author: By G. K. W., (BY OUR HANDY MAN) | Title: THE CRIME | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

...forgot, you're a poet, aren't you? Why don't you write a poem for me about our walking off like this alone and leaving it all? (No, I'd rather just lean against this big rough old tree...

Author: By G. K. W., (BY OUR HANDY MAN) | Title: THE CRIME | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

...only place where taste wabbles in this number is in the hymn parodies Nobody yet has made sacrilege funny though all have tried; and while these parodies aren't sacrilegious, they aren't funny either. Otherwise, there is many a gleam of the old Lampy in this number; and there are improvements, tod. It is a very encouraging sign of the times; quite as encouraging, in its own way, as the events of November 24 at Yale Field. Magazines are men, as much as football teams or colleges either...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FEW FAULTS IN CURRENT LAMPOON, POWEL FINDS | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...There aren't a wave for miles an' miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: David to George V | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

After all, there aren't as many riots as there used to be, and the police record is slimmer than it was. Probably Dogberry would be the first to bless that occasional political phenomenon that lifts so many to their hind legs for one good howl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BIG PARADE | 11/3/1928 | See Source »

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