Word: rhyming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hero was in her room at a certain embarrassing hour, hence could not have murdered the Russian spy, nor have stolen the important papers. For this strategic fib the Austrians give her the freedom of the army, and the hero. Again Pola Negri finds herself decorating a Hollywood nursery-rhyme...
...British mothers were widely vexed at the thought that they had taught their children a rhyme about a cross put up to honor the onetime Kaiser's mother. Well posted fathers might have explained: "The original Banbury Cross was torn down by the Banbury Puritans in 1610 as a detested Papist symbol...
...length she mentioned music. She was Chicago-bound, to sing for four weeks in a new opera, Judith, with music by Arthur Honegger, the Frenchman, and libretto by the French-Swiss M. Morax. Chicagoans pricked up their ears at this: "Compared with Judith, Salome** is only a nursery rhyme, a lullaby, and the critics had better start sharpening their pencils...
...William Ralph Inge, pronounced to rhyme with King...
...rhythmic innovations and the freedom of their rhythms. If they had any idea of what rhythm meant, they would know that in comparison with the rhythms of any of the great composers from the 16th Century onwards their own rhythms are merely as the sing-song of a nursery rhyme to the changing subtleties of a page of Shakespeare...