Word: rhymed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mind. I have to do that because I wake up in a familiar place that isn't what it was. I wake up and I see blue coats and brass buttons all over the campus. ("Brass buttons, blue coat, can't catch a nanny goat" goes the Harlem nursery rhyme.) I start to go off the campus but then remember to turn and walk two blocks uptown to get to the only open gate. There I squeeze through the three-foot "out" opening in the police barricade, and I feel for my wallet to be sure...
Over the centuries there have been six London Bridges; the one that Mc Culloch bought is only the latest to follow the nursery rhyme and come "falling down." The first span to have its destruction commemorated in song was wrecked in a raid by Olaf the Norwegian in 1014. London decided a year ago to replace the present bridge because it was not only too small to accommodate today's traffic, but was sinking into the riverbed at a rate of 1 in. every eight years. Plans for a new bridge on the old site are already under...
...poetry is marred, as usual, by the ubiquitous rhyme but the classic Dylan singe at the end of a sequence still registers...
...Walrus cries while he eats the oysters he has tricked into following him. 10) the sound of Finnegan falling--the breaking of the oosphere. 10a) "Man of" is a far more likely, and grammatical, interpretation of what the Beatles sing than "matter". 11) from an old English schoolboy's rhyme: "Alligator, crocodile, custard pie/All mixed together with a dead dog's eye/Spread it on a sandwich nice and thick/ And swallow it down with a cup of cold sick" 11a) If this isn't Capitol's inaccurate estimation of "Grab a lock of", then the Beatles have created a nonsense...
Gernreich (which he pronounces to rhyme with earn quick) made his mark by being not only the first U.S. designer to raise skirts well above the knee but also the first with such trend-setting styles as colored stockings, now so overwhelmingly popular, which he showed as part of what he called "the total look," with dress, stockings and sometimes a hood all matching. Along the way, he has introduced vinyl clothes developed out of a material that looks completely "today" and a series of freeing designs aimed at giving back to the female body its natural look and curves...