Word: quatrains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distinction of having Banker Morgan among its visitors mitigated and contrasted with the ignominy of another Harvard occurrence last week. The Senior class had elected one Edward Fuller Fitzhugh Jr., of Boise, Idaho, to write the Baccalaureate hymn. That was a sad selection for Harvard. Poet Fitzhugh wrote four quatrains of lofty, Harvardian sentiment to be sung to the tune of "Ancient of Days." The lines were published. Not until then, last week, was it discovered that the first letters of the lines in each quatrain spelled a four-letter word. The first two words were the same, an unprintable...
...bitterly the angry, scornful, rebellion with which he regarded the dismal riddle of existence. The terse wrinkled lines of his poetry are like those of his small face in their expression of quiet pessimism, of a thoughtful, stoic sorrow. His "Epitaph on a Pessimist'' is a flippant quatrain: I'm Smith of Stoke, aged sixty-odd, I've lived without a dame From youth-time on; and would to God My dad had done the same...
This mediocre quatrain would be unfairly quoted without also four of his more typical sadly cadenced verses...
...pale but audacious Greenwich Village householder, named Edna St. Vincent Millay, once wrote, among other things, an imprudent quatrain in which she distilled a favorite notion...
...smother at the first turn, flashed a horse ("Singlefoot," screamed Coach Rockne), fell back before another ("Captain Hal," howled Owner Kaiser). Where was Quatrain? Waiting for an opening. Where was Kentucky Cardinal? Nowhere. Another horse was out now, pressing at the withers of the gallant Captain Hal, at his shoulder, at his muzzle, was clearly bumping himself like a black witch rabbit. Only one man now believed that Quatrain had a chance: he was Sande, bent to the shoulder of Flying Ebony. He could outrun Captain Hal he thought, but Quatrain was the best horse in the race, the horse...