Word: lyrically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have its best interests at heart. His chief claim to fame lies in his own work-and I say this as one who has just written a short prefatory note to the new edition of Miss Wurdemann's Bright Ambush. . . . Such as that Mr. Auslander is "a lyric, not to say a complaining, poet" is to me an entirely uncalled-for, not to say an utterly unmeaning line. I could cite complaint, as your critic understands the term-or appears to understand it-in every fine poet since and including Shakespeare. Any adverse comment on existence might...
...song number called "Dancing In Central Park," in which a standard romantic lyric is tagged with the extraneous line: "Tomorrow is the fear in my heart...
...James W. Blake, 72, author in 1894 of the words of Al Smith's latterday campaign song, ''The Sidewalks of New York"; of cancer; in Manhattan. Mamie O'Rourke, Nellie Shannon, Johnny Casey and Jimmy Crowe, who "tripped the light fantastic" in Blake's lyric, had been his childhood playmates. Though the song still sells 5,000 copies a year, it brought only $5,000 to Blake and Composer Charles Lawlor, who died penniless in 1925. Pensioned by the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers, Blake was hospitalized during his last illness through the offices...
Poet Auslander's chief admiration is John Masefield, whom he calls "The Master Poet. . . . This High Priest of the Commonplace," but unlike Masefield he himself is a lyric, not to say a complaining, poet...
Many another Councilman spoke, Britain's judicial Sir John Simon, France's forthright peasant-tongued Pierre Laval, Spain's verbose and lyric Salvador de Madariaga, but they all added up to the same verdict. Even rawboned Danish Foreign Minister Dr. Peter Munch had no good to say of his country's huge Nazi neighbor. He merely said that he knew everyone would understand why Denmark "could not'' (i. e. dared not) vote against Germany and must abstain...