Word: stanzas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short story it may live and be enjoyed, but it is an absurd prostitution of an epic theme. The author has imitated classic simplicity and primitive crudeness; he has made his characters tell the tale, and thereby lost the godlike detachment of the theme; he has tried the balled stanza and has made a Indicrous failure of that difficult form so losing all claim to poetic merit. Use of the classic device anacolnthon has made ungrammatical hash, unpalatable, wretched English, as witness the line. "Yet many, like myself, am slave." This is not to say that there are no good...
...first goal of the game, but Dartmouth jumped into the lead with tallies by Brabbee and Veres in the second period. Stork tied it up with another point in the third quarter, only to have Shellmeyer put the Green ahead with a penalty kick early in the fourth stanza. H. B. Robinson '34 kicked the tying goal with about a minute to play...
...this moment Powhida was sent in to relieve Jackson, despite the stiff workout he had had the day before when the Red and Blue bowed before Dartmouth. For the time being he forced the Crimson hitters to pop up with ineffectual flies, but loosened up in the eighth stanza, walking Gleason. A heroic single from McCaffrey's bat, scored the Harvard center fielder, and McCaffrey followed home on his heels when Lupien connected for a sizzling double...
...observation made at the New York alumni dinner to President Hibben. After the last of those many words of tribute to Dr. Hibben had been spoken, "Lamb" Heyniger, divested of his dinner coat, jumped upon a table in the middle of the huge ballroom and called for three stanzas of "Old Nassau." The first stanza went finely, but along in the middle of the second-at that place where there is always a bit of uncertainty as to whether our hearts are to be thrilled with all her power, or whether our breaths we are to draw-there...
...faced elimination. One preacher said he liked the fourth stanza of "Welcome, Sweet Day of Rest" by Watts which is on the commission's list for rejection. But the others giggled when Dr. Langdale read...