Word: coupleteer
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...bends), similar but dangerous for the inexperienced; P39 (Bell's Airacobra pursuit which has several rare features, engine behind the pilot), strange, swift, mysterious; the prefix Z (for obsolete), over age 28; O-47 (North American observation plane), a girl from Dorothy Parker's couplet-wears glasses; B-19 (Douglas' huge bomber), stylish stout...
...production lasts little over an hour, the admission is sensibly low, and anyone should have fun. For those who don't, there is always the advice of the concluding couplet in the conga finale...
Thus did Adolf Hitler celebrate. At least one of his birthday tributes, a couplet, composed by Britain's wit, A. P. Herbert, was not such good news...
...sometimes bawdy Viennese libretto (1874), which details the ballroom deceptions practiced upon a banker (Tenor Edward Nyborg, tailor's son) by his wife (Selma Amansky, wife of the Philadelphia Orchestra's trumpeter and associate conductor, Saul Caston) and his maidservant (Frances Greer, church singer). Typical couplet, sung by the banker...
When George M. Cohan resumes his Presidential role in I'd Rather Be Right, some such couplet could be added to the lyrics about "one boy with du Pont, and another one with Hearst." For last week Son-With-Hearst Elliott Roosevelt made a deal to affiliate his newly formed Texas State Network of radio stations with the Mutual Broadcasting System, whose stock is 50%-owned by the anti-Roosevelt Chicago Tribune's Station WGN. Bamberger's Station WOR (Newark) owns the other half...