Word: poem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...former Minister of Education of Ontario (the Rev. Dr. Cody) now demands that the poem shall no longer be taught in the schools of Canada. He contends that it wrongly portrays the British as unmerciful, and is used in American schools as anti-British propaganda...
...year 1721 "A Match at Football" was first published. Its author, Matthew Concanen, was honored by a place in Pope's Dunciad, so that he is best remembered as "a cold, long winded native of the deep". His poem describes a game between the men of Soards and those of Lusk, "adjoyning Baronies in the County of Dublin", and although the teams consisted of but six players a side, the details of play strikingly resemble those of a modern scrimmage. We read: "And now both Bands in close Embraces nmet, And Foot to Foot, and Breast to Breast were...
...view in this first description. Wrestling and tripping were permitted. It being recorded that "careful Terrence . . . . Ran to the Swain and caught his Arm behind; A dextrous Crook about his Leg he wound, And laid the Champion grov'ling on the Ground". As Mr. Williams who reviewed the poem for the London Outlook aptly said, Terrence "would probably be ordered off the field in these degenerate days". Yet these men of Soards and Lusk would probably have fied amazed had a modern gridiron hero stepped on the field with his huge padded shoulders, and his helmet of leather...
This prize, which consists of $125 and a silver medal is awarded each year "to the best poem on a subject annually to be chosen and announced by a Committee of the Department of English...
...famed did the poem become that any ballplayer who takes a lusty swing at the ball is known as " Casey." In the recent World's Series, some attention was drawn to " Casey" Stengel of the New York Giants, who hit home-runs on two critical occasions. But not every baseball fanatic knows that this " Casey " derived his nickname-not from his likeness to the " original Casey "-but from the fact that he is a native of Kansas City...