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Masters of Mayhem. Bab Gilbert grew up in that peculiarly Victorian period which saw the rise of the limerick, the nonsense-rhyme, the deadpan fantasy, the whimsical fairytale, the gay and dexterous verse-strummings on themes of mayhem, decapitation, kidnaping, cannibalism-an era that began with Thackeray, Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and Gilbert himself, and was carried on into the 20th Century by James Barrie, G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc and Evelyn Waugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pooh to a Callow Throstle | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...Rhyme & Reason. In Los Angeles, a divorce-court judge listened unimpressed to James Gordon's too-well-versed plea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 10, 1947 | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...four-line rhyme that has had a continuing vogue in England, named for its inventor, mystery writer E. C. (for Clerihew) Bentley (Trent's Last Case). Sample Clerihew by Miller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sir Bill | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...Widener may be exceptions, but it is a safe guess that most Freshmen and Sophomores in the College today either don't know about it, or have a hazy idea that it is a place where long-haired graduate seminars get together to discuss technical niceties of meter and rhyme...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ignoscenti Notwithstanding, Poetry Room Can Cater to All Verse Tastes | 1/15/1947 | See Source »

...should continue in office, even though he was constitutionally barred from a second candidacy, and had not run in 1946. Others wanted the General Assembly to choose between the two highest general election write-in candidates: James V. Carmichael and Talmadge's son, Herman (pronounced Hummon to rhyme with summon). Still others tried to make a case for M. E. Thompson, Georgia's newly elected lieutenant governor. At week's end no way had been found of resolving the dilemma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Death of the Wild Man | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

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