Word: couplet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trademarks of the "lost generation" along with hot jazz, bobbed hair and the hip flask. Mencken lashed out at the "booboisie" with a bull whip; the debonair Nathan was content to use a swizzle stick. In the eyes of the proper-minded, the two iconoclasts were unholy terrors. A couplet of those days went...
...with the middle-aged count, her husband, as a "purely formal duty." Her friend Carlo Sacchi the silk merchant was an amateur poet as well and only slightly less passionate. In Italy's caviar and champagne set during the early '40s, the two made a neatly rhymed couplet, and even Signora Sacchi nodded at their idyl on the theory that it was only a "passing passion...
Senator Fulbright's comments on morality in the U.S. [TIME, April 9] reminded me of a couplet from James Whitcomb Riley...
...reporter, he overflowed with human kindness and still corresponds with a few lifers who sentimentally recall his heart-warming stories about their crimes, trials and convictions. Possibly the only exception to his engulfing sentimental regard for humanity is the author (Dorothy Parker heatedly denies the honor) of the cynical couplet...
...would like to rationalize by recalling the couplet written by ... James Russell Lowell, who succeeded Longfellow in the Chair of Modern Languages at Harvard...