Word: crawlin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well. He chatted with the right Congressmen. He listened as much as he talked. He shook hands with Chairman Charles ("Doc") Eaton of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Congressman Eaton greeted him warmly: "I'm glad you took this job." But, Eaton warned: "There'll be maggots crawlin' over you every minute of the time...
Song of the South (Walt Disney-RKO Radio) makes movie actors out of ol' Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox and de creeturs an' crawlin' things. Adapted with freehanded skill from the famed dialect tales of Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908), the picture is a curious mixture of live action (70%) and cartooning...
...well to make sure that you know what he was trying to do. "Kipling," Eliot believes, "was not trying to write poetry at all." He was a writer of verse which often, but always incidentally, came to life as poetry, as in " 'ark to the fifes a-crawlin'." He was a ballad maker, using that most ancient form of art and journalism brilliantly to impart truth and emotion. He was devoted not to the poem as poem, the verse as verse, but always, and utterly, to his subject. At a great poet's "greatest moments," writes Eliot...