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Designed to fill a real need are the now Classical Rooms recently opened at the Fogg Museum. Previously the classical works of art were jumbled together without much rhyme or reason. Now everything is in order, which increases enjoyment of the pieces tremendously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 10/20/1937 | See Source »

...information of those who believe they can write an excellent limerick but do not as yet know what one is, it is a five line stanza--two anapestic trimotric lines, two anapestic dimotric lines, and a final anapestic trimeter. The rhyme scheme is A A B B A. As illustrations here are two well known limericks which will not encroach on anyone's prospective subject matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Limerick Contest Will Give Chance At Dollar a Week to Playful Artists | 10/19/1937 | See Source »

...John Masefield, sang so feebly on the occasion of George V's death that he afterwards felt it expedient to declare that he disapproved of churning out verse like a machine. Last week, however, he poised himself for another burst, published his Coronation Sonnet which, despite a feminine rhyme in the last line, is as good an official poem as Britons expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Seabird City | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

Songs: The Sweetheart Waltz, I Adore Yon, So What? Rhyme for Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 4, 1937 | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

TIME failed to characterize the rhyming of "joining" and "returning" as Brooklynese because to do so would be incorrect. Any Brooklynite who pronounces "joining"' as "jerning," must of necessity pronounce "returning" as "retoining." In no dialect that TIME can discover would that particular couplet of Gloomy Sunday rhyme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 13, 1936 | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

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