Word: couplets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish you would have your type-founders get you up a lower-case "&." It would ease the pain of many of us old-time printers, and decidedly improve the appearance of the couplet. The Spanish use of "y" as in "Gomez y Soto" to indicate the paternal and maternal names of an individual gives a much better appearance than would the use of a capital...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...