Word: polysyllabicism
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The lyrics range from a fost of polysyllabic rhyme schemes of which "ambidextrous ... supersextrous" is the acme, to less intellectual attempts of the "pirates bold ... days of old ... search of gold" variety.
Mr. Watt has made a delightful, as well as searching, essay out of this somewhat minor subject. He recounts many of the amusing plots, and shows their amazing similarity. Various of the characters he describes with sympathy and humor, and points out recurrent mannerisms in style: the sighs, exclamations, and...
Captain Christopher Columbus peered through the South American underbrush and was astonished to see a pair of natives bouncing a rubber ball. Three centuries later Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley could make his erasures with a new-fangled device called a rubber. Two generations after that a Mr. Farris was collecting...
The Rungeling brothers spent their childhood in Baraboo, Wis. and Baraboo remained the winter quarters of their circuses for many years. All seven brothers were in the business but the five that adorned the posters were the partners. At an early family conference it was decided that Brothers Gus and...
In somewhat different manner the bigger and more serious legislative fight over Drought Relief was compromised last week by Senator Caraway's colleague. Senator Robinson of Arkansas. The day after Senator's Borah's thunderous speech last fortnight for food relief, President Hoover intimated that he might...