Word: ballads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lynching of Jesse James by Myrtle Mull into which we are now planning to introduce our motorcycle Agnes Dinwitte's foaming drama The Johnstown Flood is next on the list it is especially suitable for the H. D. C. in as much as it is based on the old ballad Lips that Touch Liquor shall Never touch Mine...
Elizabethan Ballad...
...Squire Ames and Doctor Ames," S. E. Morison: "A Journal of Village Life in Vermont in 1848." Edited by W. O. Clough: "The Genesis of Godey's 'Lady's Book'," Lawrence Martin: "A Ballad on the Northwest Fur Trade." F. W. Howay: Memoranda and Documents:: "Count Caleb Cushing," S. K. Hornbeck: "Milices du Newhampshire...
...seem to some that he might have allowed himself just a shade more licence in this respect. But the writer at least will not quarrel with him. With admirable good nature he has attempted to be all things to all men. The Puritan is given, in the ballad of Sir Brazen-pants, a story with a moral; the classical scholar cannot fall to derive satisfaction from the Christmas Version of "Times Danaos": while all must be stimulated by an entirely new and hither to unpublished drawing of the Widener Library. Prospective philanthropists may learn much from a well-escented study...
...Lampoon is ever read till its pictures are exhausted. The poem about the goldfish belonging to the old lady of "singularly wanton frame of mind" is evidently the work of a writer who can do still better. The ballad of the Rotunda pleases by reason of the popuarity of its subject, but no traffic sergeant in Cambridge, Mass., says "wolking" or "goil"--never...