Word: stanzas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good friends Ring Lardner, John Held Jr., Dorothy Parker, Sigmund Spaeth, Groucho Marx, Samuel Hoffenstein, Arthur Guiterman, Newman Levy. Author-Lawyer Levy ("Flaccus") wrote in 1923 what has since become the Conning Tower's "most requested" poem for reprinting, a rollicking narrative called "Thai's." First stanza: One time, in Alexandria, in wicked Alexandria, Where nights were wild with revelry and life was but a game, There lived, so the report is, an adventuress and courtesan, The pride of Alexandria, and Thais was her name. . . . Some of the best contributions are anonymous, so far as the public...
...Rudyard Kipling last week flayed the Cabinet of Socialist-Pacifist James Ramsay MacDonald for suggesting in a recent diplomatic note to other governments that "distinguished visitors" be discouraged from incessantly laying wreaths on the Cenotaph and the Westminster Abbey tomb of "The Unknown Soldier." Excerpt from the new four stanza poem...
Brownback, inside right for the visitors, opened the scoring early in the first period when he kicked the ball straight into the net. The Crimson team tightened, however, and Penn was unable to tally again during the game. Early in the second stanza, D. M. Frame '32 evened the score after a scrimmage in front of the Red and Blue net. Before the end of the period, W. D. Vogel ocC. dribbled down the field and counted the second of Harvard's three goals during the second quarter. He again tallied by heading in a rebound off the crossbar...
...history, praised the Puritan fathers. Aged Robert Grant, Boston's famed author-judge (The Confessions of a Frivolous Girl, Yankee Doodle, The Knave of Hearts, The Bishop's Granddaughter; member of Governor Fuller's advisory committee on the Sacco-Vanzetti case in 1927) read a poem. Herewith the last stanza...
That Harvard's fielding was slow was shown in the seventh stanza. Ryan flied out to MacGrath in deep center field and after the catch Dougherty scored all the way from second base. Mays was the outstanding man on the Crimson team. He covered the shortstop territory efficiently without errors and made one hit in three times at bat. Nugent and McGrath each made two singles...