Word: poem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Students in the University will have an opportunity to compete for four valuable prizes, one of which is worth $500, another $100, and two valued at $25 each. The prizes are awarded in each instance to the author of the best poem that has not been previously published either in a magazine or in book form...
...made evident by contrast. Good handling of minor parts by George Fawcett, Brandon Hurst, Emily Fitzroy and Philippe de Lacy, intelligent photography, brilliant direction are enough for any picture that includes such a performance as that supplied by Actress Garbo. The Wreck of the Hesperus, Longfellow's famed poem in its apparently rapid journey through the studios to the screen, has acquired a hero, a horse and a happy ending. The last is effected when the horse, with some aid from the hero, drags the girl from the sea. The skipper (who lashed his daughter to the mast...
...program follows: 1. Overture to "Ali Baba" Cherubini 2. Concerto in D Major, Opp 77 Brahms 3. Prelude to a Drama Schreker 4. "Mazeppa", Symphonic Poem No. 6 Liszt...
...that evening will take place at 8.30 o'clock in the Dining Room. The subjects to be covered have not yet been announced by Professor Copeland, but may, according to the Union management, include selections from "The Copeland Reader." Last year Professor Copeland read among other things a long poem by Rudyard Kipling and a humorous essay by Robert Benchley...
...writing board, its little pigeonholes for ink and sand and quill. He had used it most in moments of depression; waking up in Italy after a night of debauch, he would sit before it for an hour or more, trying to trace out some verses of Don Juan, a poem which bored him before its completion. Whenever he saw the desk being set up in his chambers after some journey, it reminded him of an interminable effort. He had never, on any occasion, been content when he began writing on it, he had never been honestly satisfied when he pushed...