Word: lyrical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blake impressed his parents at the age of four by seeing God's head in the window. No mere precocity, this faculty of imaginative vision remained his extraordinary endowment throughout life. Before he was 20 he learned the craft of engraving and wrote his Poetical Sketches, the purest lyric poetry of the century. At 24 he married a girl who could neither read nor write. Blake might have had worldly advancement but it scared him. In 1795, when someone got him the offer of a post as Tutor in Drawing to the Royal Family, he not only declined...
...voice that calls off these radio alarms day by day in reassuring and sometimes lyric New Yorkese is usually that of ruddy, greying Captain John George Stein, head of the bureau, 36 years a policeman and the No. 1 expert in his field. One day last week expert Captain Stein took a few minutes extra over WNYC to list his findings on why girls leave home...
...soldiers, hundreds of geishas, storytellers, wrestlers, chorus girls, magicians, actors and prostitutes have traveled the long weary miles from Japan to the China front during the past 18 months. The same route has been crossed by other hundreds of newspaper men, photographers, lecturers, poets, painters, cartoonists, novelists, composers and lyric writers, for few campaigns in history have ever been so painstakingly reported to a home population as Japan's war in China...
Sample Abdul-Wahab lyric...
...That (Mildred Bailey: Vocalion). Cute-lyric-of-the-month (Frank Loesser's, from the film St. Louis Blues...