Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the President's lifetime Whitman did not write a single line of praise that would presage his becoming the poet who has said the most remembered things about the President. "Drum-Taps" and its sequel did not appear until 1866. Walt Whitman said: "Lincoln is particularly my man . . . we are afloat on the same stream--we are rooted in the same ground." His words grow in presumption as the Lincoln tradition grows heartier. In the early days he had felt that they were young Lochinvars together, seeking fame in an alfen east...
...their leader, their drum major...
...Distant Drum. Marrying for money is generally regarded as reprehensible, while taking the money without the oath of office is even more severely criticized. Such criticism was finally leveled at the hero of this enterprise, in the form of a gun in the hand of an irate husband. Meanwhile he had been earning a large salary by agitating various affluent females. Finally he fell unexpectedly in love. The gun went off and shot him through his softened heart...
...historic characters, titles of books, or the heroes of one's favorite comic strip. Better are literary allusions or foreign quotations. But really the best are those that pun gently, or carry hidden some delicate and awful meaning. Choice examples of this from other years are "Titus A. Drum" for example, or "Lewd Fellows of a Basser Sort", "Twelve Knights in a Bathroom", or "Virginibus Puerisque...
...longer does the voice of God, as it is reputed once to have done, drum across the sky in the sound of storm or make a friendly whisper in the wilderness. Angels come to earth no more and the night is never filled now with the strange chime of their singing. But last week the voice of one of God's servants ran through the sky like an invisible lightening, came, out of many boxes, into the parlors of many U. S. homes. God's servant, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, was preaching his sermon through a microphone...