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Word: stanzas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fast and furious was the fracas between Tech's mustachioed Menendez and Ben Wood in the 175 pound class. A hard overhand right smash gave Wood a KO in the first stanza, putting the score at three and one half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Boxers Lose Close Match to M.I.T. Freshmen | 3/6/1937 | See Source »

...Ralph Dumke, were sons of Notre Dame, who appeared on the stage Charles Butterworth, pretender to stupidity, Notre Dame's Walter O'Keefe, later a buffoon. "East and Dumke" are now known as "Sisters of the Skillet." Charles B. has made a in movies and on the Fred Astaire stanza over a work. No promise of seriousness has been Mr. worth's. His has been a promise of madness, and must be accepted for South Bend, Ind., the Brothers, and the U. S. A. in general. The of the Skillet" are now known as the "Quality Twins, and are very...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Sisters of Skillet" Met at Notre Dame | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

Then, instead of quoting Rhymester Edgar Guest, President Reynolds launched his poetical boom with three stanzas of verse composed in collaboration with two newsworthy U. S. poets, Joseph Auslander (No Traveller Returns) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning wife, Audrey Wurdemann (The Seven Sins). First stanza, "fabricated" by Mr. Reynolds, who usually devises his rhymes while shaving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Poetical Boom | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...Second stanza by Joseph Auslander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Poetical Boom | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...Third stanza by Audrey Wurdemann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Poetical Boom | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

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