Word: poems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Musician Fox's suing landlords submitted this letter which they had sent him: "The insects you complained of are crickets and no doubt are found in most of the homes and apartments of Bayside. They are harmless, and many people enjoy their chirping; in fact, there was a poem [sic] dedicated to 'The Cricket on the Hearth and in China they put them in cages to hear them sing...
...Walter's recitations was a poem, as follows...
Composer Sowerby's Prairie, like Carl Sandburg's poem which inspired it, aptly describes the hush which enwraps the flat midwestern farmlands, the far-away burr of threshing machines, the climactic glow of a sudden sunset and the grey, momentous calm which follows. A few carping critics were inclined to credit Poet Sandburg with most of the inspiration but the sharpness of Sowerby's musical perceptions, developed now into a unanimously praised skill at orchestration, showed itself long before Chicago's red-headed organist had heard of Poet Sandburg. He was six years old, living...
...Premier MacDonald's very vague speech on the results of his mission Colonel Wedgwood remarked: "It reminded me gentlemen, of Robert Browning's Sordello, a poem which contained only two intelligible lines, the first and the last...
...section devoted to President Lowell has been practically completed. It summarizes the high points of his administration and tells some amusing anecdotes concerning his life here. It has been decided to have only a poem instead of the usual divertissements. Most of the articles are written or are in preparation so that publication on the day of the Freshman Jubilee, is assured...