Word: rhyming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...free. There was, however, little disagreement in the minds of the public. For the name of the greatest preacher since St. Paul was substituted the name of the greatest libertine since Casanova. Newssheets printed lecherous and, strictly speaking, libelous cartoons; people sang a merry and perhaps not indecent little rhyme: A famous American preacher...
...RHYME...
...youth, Joanna Southcott of Devonshire, England, was a domestic servant. Later, she became a mystic and dictated prophecies (in rhyme). She fully expected to be the mother of the "true Messiah." But no Messiah came, even though 100,000 people believed in Prophetess Southcott in her heyday. In 1814 she died, leaving an eleven-pound box with instructions that it should not be opened except in time of national stress and in the presence of 24 bishops. During the last century, certain Britishers have been reported as going into trances over this box. However, it was never opened, chiefly because...
...acted and still acts. Be that as it may, this I do know: . . . 'Ford is absolutely ruthless in his treatment of the people working for him or representing him. No man, no matter how responsible his position, can feel secure. Men are fired right and left, without rhyme or reason. The Ford management is a hotbed of jealousy and intrigue...
...merry ditty on the hunt introduces us to the Hall of Fame, which is unfortunate in itself because the lead is not characteristic, and the rhyme scheme, borrowed from the "Night Before Christmas" (we suppose with apologies to Santa Claus) lacks ingenuity. This is the first vision in Lampy's nightmare. We turn the page and the inconsistency staggers us. Herman's wife, William Tell, Cyrano de Bergerac and something indelicate about women undressing in newspaper headlines, poke the spectator feebly in the ribs but no responsive laugh comes forth, because there is no sense of reality...