Word: lyrically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From this pitch of lyric arson, Cyprus' revolt inevitably calmed down as armed Britons rushed to Storr's aid. It took a troop of Royal Welch Fusiliers all night to bump 50 miles over awful roads from their encampment on Mount-Troodos. But soon after dawn their mud-spattered trucks snorted into Nicosia and the mob was cowed...
...this brief hour of rekindled glory. A trifle world-weary, and infinitely more sophisticated, the fan mail he inspired reflected the change. 'I am writing you a few lines to let you know that I would love to meet you some time.' . . . But gone forever was such lyric ecstasy as '. . . would that I but touch that natural wave, and tie thy tie as only woman can, and smile into thine eyes of blue and say "I love you: thou'rt my Arrow Collar...
...Elizabethan Lyric", Professor Rollins, Harvard...
...engagement at the Colonial Theatre. It was booked by the Erlangers. Xo warm friends of the Erlangers are the Shuberts. They formed a rival company, called it "The Bostonians" after the famed troupe which flourished 25 years ago, opened a week earlier with The Mikado in Boston's Lyric Theatre. They threatened to head off the Aborn troupe wherever it should go. But after two weeks the Shubert Mikado, lacking patronage, ceased and desisted. The Shuberts had planned other Gilbert & Sullivan works but their troupe, now fortified with a Teutonic Katisha, will now stick to The Mikado...
EDEN TREE-Witter Bynner-Knopf ($2.50). In the U.S. a poet's lot is not a happy one. Exception: Edgar Albert Guest, whom most of his fellow poets do not regard as a poet at all. Typical modern U.S. poetry does not sell for a good reason: misnamed "lyric," it is actually introspective, exhibitionist, an effort on the poet's part to escape from intellectual nightmare. Witter Bynner's poetic cosmos is top-heavy with intellect but more objective than most; he does not get hysterical about it. His poems are not great but they are masculine...