Word: rhymed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...embittered author of this rhyme, like many another ignorant layman who would share his point of view, was totally at fault. The physician, after his long and arduous apprenticeship, receives high wages if he attains competence. The lawyer, the merchant, even the thief, is re- compensed for the lean years of his schooling by large profits in his prime. The clergyman, also, must undergo an intensive theological training before he receives a degree; afterward his education is still gradual and hard. Then, even if he has reached rare proficiency, his financial recognition is far less than that of an able...
...these slogans help the Democrats unhorse the Republicans in 1928? The slogan committee of the Woman's National Democratic Club (Washington, D. C.), hoped so. They were announced last week as the best of 800 slogans the committee obtained in its nationwide slogan-motto-jingle-limerick-rhyme con-contest (TIME, Sept. 26). The committee paid $100, $50 and $25 for the above prizewinners, as promised. The Mrs. Hubbard who won first prize is First Vice-President of the Woman's National Democratic Club. Two of the other slogans submitted were issued for publication. One from Washington said...
...bother you; you can either--take it or leave it alone. It has a story--and what a story. It seems there was this little girl from Glens Falls. At the end of the first scene she falls asleep and everything goes black. From that point on there is rhyme but no reason to her adventures. The result is a Gilbert-and-Sullivan Freud, a syncopted Alice in Wonderland...
...here there is a lacuna in the manuscript. Whether or not the author was seized with a fatal disease, lacked a rhyme scheme, lost interest those are questions which the reader must answer for himself. Suffice to say that in this fragment we have one of the loviest examples of the old Welsh. The translation is practically a literal one with the exception of the word "But", which is written as "However" (from the German "Sed" etc. Vide Med. Phil...
...that's not a rhyme!" roared Sylvester...