Word: poem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary to custom, Vice President Curtis did not make to his young guests a long inspirational speech about "getting on in the world." Instead Page Laureston Porter read a poem to the Vice President, the composite work of all the pages, entitled: "The Pages' Christmas Dinner." Excerpts...
...Virtue of Idleness." Irishman George William Russell ("AE") declared in Manhattan: "I've a complaint against he U. S. It arises out of Longfellow's 'Psalm of Life.' That poem is drilled into every child. They never forget . . . the line 'let us then be up and doing' and America has been 'up and doing' ever since. That is the cause of all your economic problems. You are working people so hard that you have, naturally, overproduction. You should cultivate the adorable virtue of idleness...
...World's circulation among sophisticates. Famed contributors include Colyumist Adams' good friends Ring Lardner, John Held Jr., Dorothy Parker, Sigmund Spaeth, Groucho Marx, Samuel Hoffenstein, Arthur Guiterman, Newman Levy. Author-Lawyer Levy ("Flaccus") wrote in 1923 what has since become the Conning Tower's "most requested" poem for reprinting, a rollicking narrative called "Thai's." First stanza: One time, in Alexandria, in wicked Alexandria, Where nights were wild with revelry and life was but a game, There lived, so the report is, an adventuress and courtesan, The pride of Alexandria, and Thais was her name. . . . Some...
...Staples' poem...
...friend sent a page from your magazine of Oct. 6 relating to Edgar Allen Toe. I was much interested in it. My sister Marie Louise Sherr, was the "M. L. S." of Poe's poem, also his poem to "Marie Louise...