Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great catchiness of the banana song is to be found partly in the brisk rhythm of the tune, but most in the magic of the phrase, " yes, we have no bananas." The root of the matter here seems to lie in a common grammatical perplexity, a perplexity over which many a person stumbles in common speech. How can you answer in one word, yes or no, to the question: " You have no bananas?" Often you will hear someone stammer "yes-no." The answer might reasonably be: " No, we have no bananas," with a direct logical opposite: " Yes, we have...
...improvin' me mind with the latest thoughts in advertising, to find more thin a quatter of the book devoted to literachoor". He could already find some literature in the advertisements. There is poetry in the line "meaty marrowy oxtail joints" used to describe a well-known soup. A prose rhythm of unusual smoothness is discovered in an automobile advertisement. "The velvety clutch responds to the merest pressure. . . . The plant but positive gears engage silently". One nationally known electric firm prints well rounded essays to describe its product, and the Ann Sawyers and Well-Dressed Men gossip like Pepys and Evelyn...
...stage fine effects of composition, corresponding to the mood of the play at the moment. From grouping to grouping the actors move, and yet one never feels that here one definite grouping is over and here the next one beings. There is an unrivalled flow, and contiuuity, beauty and rhythm in the stage direction. Particularly memorable were the kneeling figures of the delegates from Moscow at the end of the second act, and the Tsar and Tsarina, with the beggars at one side, at the end of the fifth act. And mention must be made of the costumes. Rarely...
...Thames. Mellen sat in his first shell at Middlesex School and received his earliest training under Dr. R. Heber Howe, recently resigned as director of rowing at Harvard. He was the smallest man in either boat and was rowing his first intervarsity race. Stroking with judgment and rhythm, he held his crew to a safe lead after the first quarter mile and helped win the first victory for Oxford since 1913 by two lengths of open water. Keith Kane, former Harvard football captain, requires no introduction. Pulling a strong oar at No. 4 in the Oxford boat...
Paull Franklin Baum G. '12: The Principles of English Versification. A new consideration of English verse-writ- ing on the basis of recent psychological theories of rhythm and harmony...