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...were hundreds of importunate requests to submit to the monarch: Oscar Wilde asked permission to copy some of the poetry "written by the Queen when young." ("Really!" snorted Her Majesty, "Never could the Queen in her whole life write one line of poetry serious or comic or make a Rhyme even.") A Miss Low asked "if she can be informed whether Your Majesty as a child liked dolls." ("The Queen has no hesitation in saying that she was quite devoted to dolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Royal Letter-Opener | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

...illustrate my point, I once more must beg to tweak back what remains of my poetic fringe, still my clanging bell bottoms and delve into rhyme with the following ditty entitled...

Author: By Ysoman Brill, | Title: Electronics School | 6/11/1943 | See Source »

...spirited Management class last Wednesday made us think of that old rhyme, "No more pencils, no more books, etc." And "Killer" Grew will positively accept any and all nominations to run for any office on the V. W. A. (Vacationing Workers of America) ticket...

Author: By M. J. Reth, | Title: MIDSHIPMEN | 5/28/1943 | See Source »

...lifted for the post-exam week-end. You'll be free to go where you please from Noon on Saturday, May 15th, to Midnight (2400) Tuesday, the 18th. So, go on and make that New York date. But, "See here," don't you come back late. (well, well, a rhyme...

Author: By M. J. Roth, | Title: NSCS Midshipmen | 4/23/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Untermeyer on Frost | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

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