Word: rhymes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Victorian Jewel Box. Meanwhile his 500,000,000 subjects can ruffle the pages of English history and survey their previous King Edwards. Too late came Edward VII to be included in that magnificent and useful doggerel The History of England in Rhyme which so many sturdy Victorians still know by heart. In some 400 lines of galloping and definitely learnable verse it equips an Englishman with the history of his country from "great Julius Caesar, B. C. fifty-five." Gems from this Victorian jewel box apropos the long dead Edwards...
...nervousness and confusion than did the five bouncing, goggle-eyed babies, who with composure played scenes along unexpected lines, caused the speaking actors frequently to improvise. ¶ Yvonne Dionne turned out to be the best actress. Cecile was the musical one, waving her arms in time with a nursery rhyme. Marie was the least adept at walking. Emilie and Yvonne each cut her ninth tooth, causing Mr. Zanuck in Hollywood to fret: "We'll just have to hope . . . that audiences will not notice. . . ." Of Annette Mr. Hersholt said: "She had her big, devastating eyes turned full force...
There is neither rhyme nor reason in this action. The seal in itself has long since lost whatever practical value it may once have possessed. Only as a living symbol does it acquire significance. Confined to diplomas and official stationery it forwith becomes a museum piece, completely stripped of the meaning which constant use by Harvard men confers upon it. And it is difficult to imagine who should have more right to its use or pride in its display than the undergraduates and graduates of the University...
Alas, how few of us know what love-sick students find shelter within our cloistered walls. That they should break out in rhyme is understandable. But that they should expose their bleeding hearts to the scrutiny of the public eye for a cash reward--how ignoble and unworthy does the compensation seem. The letter printed below received a dollar prize in the "Traveller" Love Letter Contest but it seems a small reward for the budding poet who finds his "beloved" more noble than the "peacock...
Nash's fluttery doggerel is as American as a Mississippi drawl and as tempting to imitate. Last week reviewers were tempted to another outburst of meterless, rhyme-twisting verse by the appearance of Nash's fifth book of poems, The Primrose Path. In that outburst they were led by Critic John Chamberlain of the New York Times, who turned out a whole re-view in Nashiana. Excerpts...