Word: musee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could remember Romancers Jules Verne or H. G. Wells having compassed a greater imaginative flight than Herr Rumpler. Yet many a newspaper reader with an open mind about the future filed away the despatch from Dusseldorf for their grandchildren to muse over some...
...tunes. So the name gives rest to the weary brain of Martel and his assistant by suggesting all the "baby" hits of the past year for accompaniment. They took the suggestion. So there is no reason for lack of symmetry in this dual art of comic music and comic muse. It is certainly a system...
That premier of journalists, Defoe, when misfortune cased his sturdy limbs with the tiobers of the pillory, invoked his muse and made some cash thereby. And Francois Villon was a poet though a picaroon. So Gerald Chapman, writing heroically unheroic couplets in his cloistered corner of Connecticut, has precedent preponderous--even more precedent than the verse demands...
...despite the vagaries of varied mood mottled memoirs of the arts, poetry, after all, is poetry. And Gerald, though an excellent gunman and a fairly creditable crook, has yet to write poetry. Indeed his muse is not sufficiently--to use his own words--distillate. In fact one might even believe murder detrimental to that divine something which breeds noble rime. But then again there is Francois Villon. Modernity lacks savoir faire even the rogues are prosaic...
...light was, if not one of nature's noblemen, at least a child artist worthy to write another "Janitor's Boy". For out in Revere where thrills are thunderbolts and in the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns foolish Lillian Sidney Serota has arisen to proclaim her muse. In a recent edition of the Boston Traveller--to use the style affected by my friends in the next column--Lillian does her stuff, to the extent of one story, "The Eternal Triangle". And it is really worth mentioning, worth even more than mentioning. For Lillian's muse is equal...