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Prolific author of critical essays on poetry, Poet Untermeyer sticks to conventional rhythms in his own verse, but experiments with new rhymes: "fronds-bronze, millions-brilliance, color-duller, cardboard-hard, bored,"-studied inaccuracies which emphasize a lack of spontaneity. Indeed, this poet is at his best in historical comment, or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Verse | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

Good humor, rather than barbed and sharpened wit is, indeed, typical of the whole of this present issue. There is plenty of pleasant nonsense, sustained from the verses on the first page through the burlesque accounts of the extraordinary exploits of Colonel (and Captain) Sir Harry Hard Sauce. But unfortunately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reviewer Finds "Briny Deep" Issue of Lampy Maintains High Average--Good Humor, Not Barbed Wit, Is Keynote | 5/24/1928 | See Source »

I am one of the best free press agents you have. Personally, if I could find time to read only one weekly publication, it would be yours. Keep it up. I love the style and satiric frankness.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

Dr. Knock. There are those theatregoers who wince when they see, propped up on the stage, a cardboard automobile. To them, this frail vehicle is a symbol for many estimable qualities of stage technique-loud clowning, eccentric costuming, futuristic scenery, boisterous laughter from the actors on the stage-which they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 5, 1928 | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

The author, a recent graduate of this institution, confines herself to the girl's college alone; but if, as she seems to think, higher education at one of the best feminine institutions is nothing more than a farce, it would be too sanguine to suppose that even the top rank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BETWEEN US GIRLS | 6/7/1927 | See Source »

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