Word: ballading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Going Down Sackville Street (the line is from a bawdy ballad) is not patterned in the ordinary, staid memoir manner. Not only by the title but by the book's motto ("We Irishmen are apt to think something and nothing are near neighbors") and the author's note ("The names in this book are real, the characters fictitious") readers are warned to hang on to their hats...
...famed but unpublishable ballad, The Bastard King of England, generally credited to Kipling, is supposed to have cost him the post of Poet Laureate...
...turn trained hands to any literary job; but few can or will. Of this able minority, Robert Graves is an encouraging example. He has written poetry, biography, autobiography, criticism, short stories, historical novels; he has rewritten David Copper field, has done books on the meaning of dreams, the English ballad, the future of swearing. Because his last two books (I, Claudius, Claudius the God) were on Roman history and sold well in England and the U. S., readers might have expected him to follow up his success with more along the same line. Such readers were surprised, but should...
Those Harvard's in the know have been making an awful fuss about their swimming team. Extravagant embryo bets have been the order. Our fellow columnist, in his locker-room ballad of Dartmouth reported the Crimson lads swimming in Hanover during the Carnival, were all offering even money. But we've not seen any of that money come out of Boston. And right here we'd like to put in our bid for some of that loose-flying Crimson coin...
Familiar to most U. S. blasphemers is the ballad about the Biblical football game played on Christmas Day in St. Peter's old back yard. Last week before an eminently respectable audience-a father-&-son dinner in Brandywine Methodist Episcopal Church, Wilmington, Del.- Football Coach Harvey John Harmanof the University of Pennsylvania picked a Biblical football team he would have liked to coach. The lineup...