Word: ichabod
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...heavy as a Tartar's lance," whatever that might be. Our fathers step out into the bright lights of Broadway from a Theatre Guild production, with a soft sigh for days when Thomas Jefferson made Rip Van Winkle stretch his cramped legs upon a New York stage. And Ichabod Crane has become a fixture in America, one might even say a plumbing fixture...
...March, Daniel Webster stood up before the Senate of the United States and delivered what chauvinistic New Englanders are still pleased to remember as a most unfortunate speech. Many and great were the execrations heaped upon his head. One man particularly was outraged. He wrote a poem called Ichabod which today third graders recite in a fumbling monotone on Memorial Day. He also broke forth in trenchant prose with the words, "The God that made New Hampshire taunted that lofty state with little men." Old Boston squatted on its haunches and shook the heavens with ill-concealed joy, some even...
Died. Dr. John Knox Allen, 84, of Tarrytown, N. Y., for 50 years minister of the First Reformed Church of Tarrytown, famed as the church near which the Headless Horseman gave horrific chase to Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; of paralysis; in Tarrytown...
...upper and lower natures of man. . . . concentrated noise," "displaying nothing of striking originality in either melody or harmony. . . ." The sleek, confident folk in the orchestra and the boxes, their less fortunate fellows four flights up, received it warmly, clapped and clapped until Composer Howard Hanson,* tall, lean, with Ichabod legs, came out and folded himself into thank-you bows...
...beginning was the word and the word was 'reality'" is the new gospel preached by the Realty Research Society, Ichabod Babbit, President. "Man" says Mr. Babbit, "was an incident and woman a side issue. The beginning of the world was real estate with water thrown in as a chaser." Even nature has consistently dealt in real estate values, destroying and making properties with each successive geologic age. As for man, ever since the serpent advertised the apples of Eden and Noah obtained a monopoly of the ripuarian rights on the face of the globe, no movements of consequence have omitted...