Word: poem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game at Minneapolis when the bases were full and the score " four to three with but one inning more to play," he struck out. A young Harvard man-Ernest Lawrence Thayer-pinned the tragedy into a few neat verses, and Actor DeWolf Hopper took to reciting the poem...
...Addison Woolsey Bronson, the book collector, has been permitted to make a copy of a unique poem which Rudyard Kipling wrote some years ago for Mr. F. D. Underwood, the president of the Erie Railroad. When Mr. Underwood was general manager of the Soo line, he named two stations, Rudyard and Kipling, after Rudyard Kipling whose works he greatly admired, and wrote the author about his Michigan namesakes. Kipling replied by sending him a cabinet photograph with these lines inscribed upon the back...
Born in a dark sailors' boarding house in Front Street, her first place was with the Farleys, rich, etiolated, precise. Rollo Farley, the pallidly esthetic son of the house seduced her?she gave him the inspiration for his one great poem. Then he got engaged to a girl of his own class who had a head like a beautiful egg, and forgot Bertha. Bertha moved on?she was always moving on. She bore a son to Rollo?a son who was adopted at the age of two weeks or so by the Bixbys of Detroit. As soon...
...Shooting of Dan McGrew (Robert W. Service's poem) is soon to be cinematized. Barbara La Marr will appear as "the lady known...
...Scaife, besides being a prominent speaker, was the winner of the Oxford University prize poem contest this year...