Word: odes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps you would fancy an 'Ode to an Eider-duck...
Climaxing a morning devoted to the traditional Senior literary exercises, including the class oration, ode, and poem, Governor Saltostall, Chief Marshal of Harvard Alumni, led a colorful parade of six brightly costumed classes headed by the 25th year delegation of 1914 into the stadium yesterday afternoon at two o'clock...
Ushering in the myriad class activities of Class Day, the Seniors will assemble Wednesday morning at 11:30 o'clock in the Kirkland House triangle, for their literary exercises, including the delivery of an oration, poem, and ode...
...Louis Untermeyer, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. For U. S. poets, the first prize is big money indeed-twice their average yearly earnings, about three times Poet Laureate John Masefield's yearly pay, equaled only once before, when Harriet Monroe, late editor of Poetry, wangled $1,000 for her official ode on the 1893 Columbian Exposition...
...take no less than $400 for singing in the flesh-a fee the Italians never saw their way to giving him. On the British program, besides a coterie of other Arabic talent, broadminded Crooner Abdul-Wahab in person cleared his voice, began his popular warbling, sang in Arabic an "ode to Shakespeare." His fee for helping British imperialism along: $625 an appearance...