Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kirk of Shotts down to Rome, eight nations were tied together this week in a European TV network. The first image seen simultaneously in the eight Western European countries was an offshore view of the storied Castle of Chillon in Switzerland, which has been immortalized by Byron's poem and by untold thousands of tourist postcards...
Lima, Peru - Poet Laureate Tennyson wrote his poem (''in a few minutes") after reading the London Times's account. The Times reported 607; Tennyson used 600 in the interests of metrical smoothness. Later figures, like the returning British troopers, came home more slowly...
John Sweeney will read "An Arch for Janus" as the traditional Phi Beta Kappa poem...
When he became a full-fledged parish priest at Salzano he gave away so much to the poor that his clerical ring was often in the pawnshop. At the end of his nine years there his devoted parishioners wrote a poem for him that went: "He came in garments that were torn, he left without a shirt...
...country, Harvard football games already attracted large crowds so large, in fact, that the narrow foot bridge connecting Soldiers Field with Cambridge nearly collapsed every time the mob poured over it. This severe congestion inspired The Lampoon to parody Longfellow's "The Bridge Over the Charles" with a poem beginning...