Word: blynken
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...Wynken, Blynken and Nod. Turning his phrasemaking talents to politics, Barton won election to an unexpired term in the House of Representatives in 1937 from Manhattan's "silk-stocking district," was easily re-elected the following year. A moderate Republican, he often joined Massachusetts' Joe Martin and New York's Hamilton Fish in heckling Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. Roosevelt retaliated massively during his 1940 bid for a third term. Borrowing the rhythm of the nursery-book poem, Wynken, Blynken and Nod, F.D.R. delighted audiences with his jocular condemnation of "Martin, Barton and Fish...
Exploring (NBC, 12:30-1:30 p.m.). Following a nautical theme today, this children's program demonstrates the hornpipe, reads Wynken, Blynken and Nod, talks about navigation, whaling...
...Church of the Holy Comforter in the North Shore Chicago suburb of Kenilworth, school children gathered about the tomb of Eugene Field on the day before the 44th anniversary of his death. A Boy Scout and a Girl Scout laid wreaths on the tomb. Read and sung were Wynken, Blynken and Nod, Little Boy Blue, The Drum...
Salanio, Salarino and Gratiano, ordinarily the Wynmen, Blynken and Nod of the Shakespearian first act, were as different as people really are and as alike as gentlemen's ideas are. Hugh Miller, Alfred Jingle in 'Pickwick", played a lively Gratiano to the giggling Nerissa of Spring Byington...
None the less, Wynken, Blynken and Nod and another lullaby, Little Boy Blue, were poetic masterpieces. And Eugene Field, the gaunt man who wrote them, put such a lyric fluency into whatever he wrote that he became known as "the children's laureate." He is best remembered as that today. No grown-up wishing to be popular with children allows himself to forget the words...