Word: rhymed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...December 19 and 20, against the cathedral background of the Germanic Museum. "Dublin Cycle" translated from the Gaelic by Katherine Tynan Hinkson, has been selected and will make its initial performance in America. One of the classics of Gaelic literature, "Dublin Cycle" has retained all its native beauty of rhyme and action because of the fine work of Miss Hinkson in translation. The production will be directed by Gerald Harrington '31 and will be open without charge to all members of the audience of "Fiesta...
...doesn't look for reason in a parade, just as one doesn't look for rhyme in a campaign song. The seeker after truth who inquires here for that which above all things beareth away the victory must ask of the winds which far around with fragments of confetti and cottonballs strewed the streets...
...notion that something is wrong with the colleges. From the volume of literature that this notion has produced one might infer that everything was wrong with the colleges. There is apparently no reason for this sudden flux of collegiate concern, just as it is certain that there is no rhyme to it. Perhaps it has come because never before have the American institutions of professed higher learning been so popular. Perhaps popularity and excellence run by contraries...
...would not do. Medieval France was then scanned. A suitably universal monster was found adorning every Gothic Cathedral, fighting off devils. Gargoyle, therefore, became synonymous for lubricating oil wherever Christian church architecture is known. The management of the Vacuum Oil Co., disliking puns, noticed too late that the unfortunate rhyme between "oyle" and oil. Gargoyle was already on countless billboards, luring motorists, drawing business. Last year Vacuum's earnings, it was allowed to be understood last week, were equal to, if not more than the $24,133,655 of 1926, whereas the great Standard of New York showed...
Amid troublous times the Abbot secreted certain valuable deeds in a vast meat pie. Treacherous Steward "Jack" Horner filched and stole them out. Later this bold deed was totally emasculated in a nursery rhyme...