Word: rhymed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...racily conversational prose-puncher, a "critic" who makes you stop, look & listen by the amusing mock-violence of her own irrelevant reactions, Mrs. Parker has written, in Laments for the Living, some first-rate dialogs. But when her climate curdles her to rhyme, her curtness often turns to slightly acidulous whey. Poetess Parker's ideas can usually be contained in a quatrain though she often lets them wander farther. Death and Taxes has a few neat quatrains...
Died. Ralph Barton, 39, caricaturist and satirist (Science in Rhyme Without Reason, God's Country); by his own hand (revolver); in Manhattan. Four times married - to Marie Jennings, Anna Minerly, Actress Carlotta Monterey (now married to Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill) and French Composer Germaine Tailleferre-he was four times divorced. Last week he left a statement headed "Obit" which said: "I have run from wife to wife, from house to house, from country to country in a ridiculous effort to escape from myself. ... In particular, my remorse is bitter over my failure to appreciate my beautiful lost...
Whoa, TIME! stay your hand a bit! Dip your pen in the sand a bit. That rhyme about Cervantes...
...Fred A. Meyer, immigrant from Berlin, proudly exhibited in Manhattan a sketch of Albert Einstein which he had made aboard the S. S. Belgenland last fortnight and to which Dr. Einstein had affixed, with his signature, the following rhyme: Dieses fette satte Schwein
...fifth visit was in The Merry Wives of Gotham, in which, to his displeasure, he was to take the part of Seamus O'Briskey. Bitterly Mr. Sinclair protested that there was no such name in all Ireland. The author then admitted that he had coined the name to rhyme with whiskey. Author and actor compromised on another spirit, the character became Seamus O'Tandy. Last time Actor Sinclair appeared in the U. S. (1927) he took part in two well-received plays by Sean O'Casey: Juno & The Paycock, The Plough & The Stars. Bad Girl is another...