Word: lyre
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Clothed in the cast-off garments of Apollo, with a crown of bay generally askew, strumming at intervals a tuneless lyre, the genius of the paper has lived on unchallenged and unchallenging while its mascot Pegasus has remained fast tethered in his stall...
...like Oden's ravens he brings back tidings, not from all corners of the globe perhaps, but far more remarkable for a Cambridge foaled beast, from twelve states outside of New England! And the genius, his flowing robes girl up about his loins, his wreath becomingly arranged, his lyre attuned to the typewriter--raises the ante. The prize for the best word to describe a "dry" leaps from ten to twenty-five dollars...
...program is as follows: Choral Prelude, "Wir Glauben All' Bach Prelude to Cantata No. 106 Bach Prelude to Cantata No. 29 Bach Professor Davison Invocation. "To An Old Picture" Wolf Prayer Wolf "O had I Jubal's Lyre" Handel Mrs. Winternitz Pastorale Franck Bourree Handel Professor Davison Scripture Reading. Romance Debussy Recitative et Air de Lia ("L'Enfant Prodique") Debussy Mrs. Winternitz Scherzo (Second Symphony) Vierno Evening Harmonies Karg-Elert Finale in B-flat Franck Professor Davison
...editor in forming this collection of poetic emanations of the "Comic Idea". First; the poems are to be grouped each according to the musical instrument that best represents its particular note, and there they are classified, ready to satisfy the reader's merest subconscious mood, all the way from Lyre and lute d'amour to saxophone and piccolo. Truly a Herfordian idea. Second, that the total amount of Prose written on the subject of Poetry is vastly in excess of the amount of actual Poetry that has been composed in the same space of time; accordingly it is time...
Edward VII as an adipose angel complete with lyre or as the fat-man wonder at a circus...