Word: rhyming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...skin the Graphic." This is what the Public wanted the Bronx editors to do. The editors sat in consultation. One man's version of the last line of a limerick was as good as another's, they feared. They were no Brownings. "We can give them words to rhyme," said one editor. "But they won't understand what they mean," dissented another. "Then we will tell them what they mean," cried the first. "They can read English, can't they...
Next morning, the Home News published the announcement that ''a list of rhyming words is given here to aid in writing the last lines of the uncompleted limericks in yesterday's Journal and Graphic." Followed some words. The Journal limerick required a rhyme with "stroll" and "roll'; the editors of the Home News suggested "poll," "extol," "dole," "cajole," "condole," etc., carefully explaining that the first meant the head; the second, to praise in highest terms; the third, to give in small quantities; the fourth, to impose on by flattery or delusive promises; the fifth, to express sympathy, etc. The Graphic...
...touches a pen to write a rhyme...
Some one-some wit-better endowed with sharpness than with taste, composed a little rhyme...
...history of the rhyme is accurate enough. Weeks, Mellon, New, Work, Hoover, Davis remain. Wilbur, whom President Coolidge added to the group as Secretary of the Navy, likewise is at hand. Last week, the President announced that "except for unforeseen emergencies" in the Cabinet, no further changes would be made. The announcement came after the previous two weeks had wrought major changes that mean a new Cabinet in several respects after Mar. 4. The following is a summary of Cabinet changes, by portfolios, with the prospects that each has roused...