Word: eras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...divided his book into sections, each representing a particular period of poetry, such as Elizabethan, Romantic, and so forth. After, the poetry of the Victorian era he places several selections to which he assigns the term "Eighteen-Eighties and Nineties", and which serve as a sort of prelude to the work of a more modern tone. Since these divisions are presumably purely chronological there should be no objection, but nevertheless there will be readers who will question the propriety of omitting Hardy and Housman from poets of the Twentieth Century, since the work of the former at least is quite...
There is small need for alarm Mexico still swarms with dark virile men who love nothing better than mixtures of blood and sand. But, alas, bulls come dear in this era--and seats for the slaughter must rise accordingly. The cinema is cheaper. Therefore the Mexican morale breaks down to the extent of deserting the bull fights for the inexpensive but amusing movies. The national hero is transformed from the person of the most efficient bull artist to that of the reigning screen star, be it man, woman, child or horse. For those who dance must pay the piper, quoth...
...regard to British Foreign policy toward the end of the Victorian era the Vagabond is forced to confess ignorance. But he has heard Professor Webster lecture, he knows that Professor Webster has had an unrivaled opportunity to study this subject in his work in the British foreign office and his long access to the British archives, and he is going to avail himself of this easiest and pleasantest way imaginable to find out just what Great Britain was thinking and doing in relation to the rest of the world around the year...
Undergraduates like to believe that with their generation the world is embarking upon a new era of ideas, culture, and general enlightenment. Later, when they grow a little older, they realize that there is nothing new under...
Lampoon Entering New Era...