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...despotic machine of Stalin can. Kicked out, they yet believe that alone are the chosen vessels in which reposes the spirit of Lenin - in Russia Lenin is, in sober truth, a God. In his name Trotsky will certainly plot and and perhaps conquer. After all "Lenin & Trotsky" is a couplet revered by millions to whom "Lenin & Stalin" rings unfamiliar, hollow strange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Political Execution | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

which politican wiseacres have been dining at the public for weeks to describe the Republican problem, had dwindled to the first couplet except as political poetry. The candidacy of Vice President Charles Gates Dawes may contain a trace of realism, but the G. O. Politicians distrust Mr. Dawes. He is so quick on the trigger, and he backed the McNary-Haugen bill.* As for Frank Orren Lowden, his candidacy has been buried alive by recent developments in Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Booms | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...Jonson was another Elizabethan who ate at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, as it was then called. Once a dispute arose as to who could most quickly make the best couplet. Poet Joshua Sylvester took up the challenge and penned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Winter Pudding Season | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...short couplet, with its promise of a thrilling performance, is the difficult thing to fulfill. With President Coolidge unavailable, Mr. Butler and his committeemen had soon to determine-whether they began determining last week or not until the National Committee routine meeting in December-which one of several able and willing mahouts would be most likely to take the elephant skywards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: G. O. Parley | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

Interwoven with the poetic freedom which portrays the more inexpressible thoughts of the woods is a subtle humor. In two unexpected lines, Vachel Lindsay summarizes neatly a whole political campaign. The couplet bears repeating for the benefit of staunch members of the Republican club...

Author: By D. C. Backus, | Title: THE CANDLE IN THE CABIN. By Vachel Lindsay. D. Appleton and Co., New York. $2.00. | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

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