Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, Oct. 10, reviewing Vanities, states that the patronym of Milton Berle is pronounced to rhyme with "peril." As manager of a vaudeville theatre in which Berle appeared not long ago, I discovered that while Milton pronounces his last name to rhyme with "pearl," Mr. Berle Sr. pronounces it "Boyle...
Unlike most undergraduate poets, Authoress Millay in this trial flight kept her immortal longings strictly under control. Her airily unpretentious blank verse, never seeking to vie with Marlowe or Milton, avoids comparisons, succeeds perfectly in cloaking a little masterpiece...
...daughter. Julian's father falls foul of the law when he tries to protect an old woman from the witch-finders; he and Julian and Parson Herrick take a tactical holiday to Cambridge, just then a political and poetical storm centre. There they meet Poets John Milton, supervising a performance of his masque, Comus, Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley, John Cleveland. Julian adores Cleveland, is happy when he condescends to make love to her. But the shadows fly fast: in a brawl between Cleveland and her Puritan brother, Julian is killed; England is split by its worst civil war; Parson...
...Lampoon, humorous undergraduate publication, was announced last night. The men elected are: Heywood Fox '33 of Pelham Manor, New York, L. T. Wing '35 of Great Neck, Long Island, New York, and J. deB. Bertolet '35 of Reading, Pennsylvania to the Literary Board; Vincent Palmer '35 of Milton and W. H. Lewis, Jr. '35 of Mountain Lakes, New Jersey to the Art Board; and R. B. Murray '34 of Hampstead, Maryland, H. T. Pierpont, Jr. '35 of Worcester, and W. G. Barker, 2d '35 of Brookline to the Business Board...
Chief comedienne is dry-voiced Helen Broderick. who variously impersonates a streetwalker, an inmate of a maternity ward, a deceiving wife. Harriet Hoctor. wanly unreal as a porcelain figure, does her old raven dance and a couple of others. Offsetting this wholesome influence is an abandoned fellow named Milton Berle (to rhyme with "peril") whom Producer Carroll has chosen for his chief male funster...