Word: sorehead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...open season for parodies, which was inaugurated a few days ago by "Sonnets to a Sorehead", will be marked today by the appearance of "In Personam", a rhymed dissertation on the foibles of the Law School...
...identity of the sorehead is unknown. On the cover of the book it is announced that the author, is "Hollis Randolph Thayer-Smith," while the publisher is declared to be the "Pessimistic Society of Cambridge." But that he finds much to scoff at in Harvard and her professors is apparent from his score or more of sonnets, written in more than passing verse, which appear in his little volume...
...Professor Baker the sorehead seems particularly sore. Of him he writes...
...unknown sorehead also vents considerable spleen against Professor Copeland. hailing him as the "self-styled sophist of Hollisian haunts," the dyspeptic bard describes one of Professor Copeland's famous readings as follows...
Sonnet to a Sorehead to Hollis Randolph Thayer-Smith...