Word: catch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This second of the three volumes of poems left for posthumous publication by Amy Lowell is as impersonal as the first volume (What's O'Clock?, 1925) was personal. It contains 13 narratives, mostly in the free, conversational verse that Miss Lowell adapted as a net to catch the crabbed dialect of her much-cherished New England. That dialect imposed restrictions upon her crystalline and pyrotechnic fancy, but only in the matter of actual words. When a New Englander needs an image for swarming bees he may not bethink him of showered stars, yet sparks from a Fourth...
...this contest in Texas youthful Dan Moody, strong in the back and weak in the head, has charged the people's champion, your Governor, and for a moment has appeared victorious. But the champion has only paused to catch her breath and she is back in the ring giving battle, and with the rising tide of outraged public opinion is winning a contest which will typify once more the triumph of brains and courage over youth and ignorance...
John M. Parker Jr. son of the onetime Governor of Louisiana, who won the National Tarpon Rodeo at Pass Christian, Miss., with a 6 ft. 3 in.. 108-lb. catch...
...Chief B. J. Gillen with his 16 aids.* Sheriff Al Weaver promised to patrol the city. But the local magnates knew that he had but one chief deputy, one office deputy, one plain clothes deputy and four uniformed roadmen to prevent all the county's crime and to catch motor speeders. So they asked Chief Gillen and his platoon to remain on duty, will guarantee them some wages out of the pledged $10,000 until police court and traffic fines and city license fees will bring sufficient money into the city treasury for full payment. Warren's present...
...duty, cable ships fly a signal entitling them to the right of way. They need to follow a direct course (if paying out cable) or to stay with lengthy catch (if mending or taking in line). By day the sign is two red canvas globes with a white diamond between them; by night, lanterns hung, vertically, red above, and below, white between...