Word: couplets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...This couplet, chanted by Gregory Edward Toole (microphone name: Willie Winn), is an idle boast, for his voice carries no farther than 1,000-watt WAAF (Chicago) can send it-about 100 miles. Chicago hears Willie Winn every morning predicting how each of 96 horses will finish in the afternoon's races. And Chicago plays his tips...
...read in the Crimson that the verse is to be divided and each couplet placed under the appropriate picture. Now that they have been removed, it is folly not to take advantage of the opportunity to dispose of them quietly. If each couplet is placed under the mural which it describes, the last two lines will be on the left and read first, and the first two on the right and read last, and the total effect will be senseless. If it is felt that the couplets are needed to explain the murals, it might be better to wipe...
...large. Sordid subjects, prevalent among social novelists are ridiculed; a digression is made on obscurity; this obscurity is commented on; and the sentence lamely concludes declaring that one must ponder whether matter or style is more vile. Artistically the word "vices" is wishful and unproven; Mr. Hillyer's couplets have not made tangible that confusion is a vice and what he actually means is: "Their only consistency is inconsistency." The word "except" is grammatically unsupported, and "consistently" is a filler elbowishly attempting to link a couplet with one preceding. In the next group of sentences, which I can compesitely number...
...word, speak of "development." The Texas textbook committee once refused to approve a biography of Thomas A. Edison lest they be attacked by a Fundamentalist Baptist, Rev. J. Frank Norris, who hated and feared that atheist inventor. In Louisiana an Elson Reader was banned because of this Mother Goose couplet...