Word: gemmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...balance of the issue, though often remote from the strict Lampian style, is in the main amusing and clever. "Fuzzywuzzy" offers a not inconsiderable gem whereof the appropriateness, translated into other social spheres, may meet the discerning eye, while the small skit about the birdies is delectable nonsense of the most approved Carrollian variety. "The Picnic Blues", in verse that moves easily, fills that need for gentle self-expression which tortured souls have felt since the days of the First Picnic in Eden; and the mail-order edition of Webster's exclusive and only masterpiece contains some rare specimens...
...once heard a concert by the Cornell Glee Club in which the principle number was a vocal gem entitled "Mrs. Cosy's Boarding House." Imagine a great institution of learning sending out a professor of English literature to give readings from the works of Mary Jane Holmes...