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...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...
...state control of conscience began to lay the groundwork for religious liberty as it is known today. Though the Puritans came to the New World in search of religious freedom, they were not interested in tolerance for anyone else. Typical of 17th Century New England, says Stokes, is a couplet found in the pocket of Massachusetts Governor Joseph Dudley after his death...
...really needs is a pinch of Attic salt. The famous passage about the sun standing still for Joshua needs no interplanetary cataclysm to explain it. It carries its explanation right in the text . . . The chronicler, writing ancient history, comes upon the Book of Jashar and quotes from it the couplet...
...snake charmer, for research indicating that the flavor of a cigar is enhanced if dipped occasionally in beer; Harvardman ('11) Joe Gould, perennial Greenwich Village drink-cadger and author of an uncompleted 9,000,000-word book (An Oral History of Our Time), for turning out a new couplet...