Word: rhyming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anything, the city-bred reader will learn several things he may have missed knowing. . . . He will be led to find out that the chewink is a kind of finch and is so called because of its note, which is accented on the second syllable. And why (unless for the rhyme) does the poet refer to the chewink rather than to any other kind of bird? Because the poet is 'versed in country things' and knows that the chewink has a quick eye and an appetite for berries, especially blueberries...
...Government backs up this buying spree with one stock answer: the unprecedented food requirements of the Army, Navy and Lend-Lease. So far so good. But the big trouble is that Government purchasing agents have probably gone beyond all rhyme or reason. Of the mountains of canned goods bought last year, the Government has so far used about one-third-all the rest gathers dust and rust (but no vitamins) in warehouses and quartermaster depots. Moan the canners: now the Government plans to expand buying, thus build stockpiles still higher...
...starting lineup. Dean Hennessey, sixth in the Ivy League scoring race, is at one forward, teaming with George Dillon. Captain Hugh Hyde is the Crimson center, with Mike Fansler and Jack Torgan at the guards. The hoopsters lately have been like the little girl in the nursery rhyme: when they are good, they are very, very good; but when they are bad, they are horrid...
...nursery rhyme...
Characterizing all poetry, with the exception of blank verse, as a form of self-discipline from within and without. Frost explained how great were the obligations of a poet once he had started his work. "Once an initial rhyme is made," he said, "the poet cannot avoid continuing in the same style...