Word: chantey
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...long poems Masefield tells of her first voyage and her last; in many shorter lyrics sings the praises of the Wanderer and her vanished kind. Always a competent narrative poet, the ageing Masefield embroiders fewer purple passages, forges no mighty lines. But he can still write a chantey which cries for music. The first verse...
...Lindsay never said quite the same thing before, but the blatant tone of voice is unmistakably his. He is a hell-raiser whose hair is never brushed; like his latest book, he is "aggressive, however sinful and full of pride." Two good poems appear-one an old-style Lindsay chantey, "The Virginians Are Coming Again," and "Twenty Years Ago," a rambling epistle to some anonymous and scornfully rejected patron. As usual, Poet Lindsay wanU these poems to be chanted, hopes that none of them will be set to music. In his recent sojourn in Spokane Poet Lindsay evolved what...
...story. The foreground is Lupe Velez, who sings attractively and shrilly through her teeth. Gary Cooper is a gangling Kentucky boy who loves and kidnaps a Mexican girl and is harassed at last by the conflict between his memory of the girl's sweet singing and the fleering chantey of the mountaineers...
...Captain Hal, who had turned in the best trial times, and Kentucky Cardinal, also impressive in trial, were popular. Sande was up on Flying Ebony, stable mate to G. A. Cochran's Coventry, Preakness winner. The Whitney-Greentree Stables' entries had been weakened by the loss of Chantey, a last-minute scratch...
...Copeland will read the following selections from Kipling at 8 o'clock tonight in Sever 11: "Ford of Kabul River," "The Sea Wife," "The Widow at Windsor," "The First Chantey," "The Last Chantey," "Soldier and Sailor," "Gentlemen Rankers," "La Nuit Blanche" the song from "The Brushwood Boy," "The Song of the Banjo," "Mulvaney's Account of the Taking of Lungtungpen...