Word: stanzas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...however, creating a rus tic caricature of a campaign around his homespun look. Ten teams of G.O.P. cam paign workers lined up along street curbs to display rhymed signs advertising Sam Hopkins, like Burma-Shave. An octette of Republican ladies, wearing coonskin caps, trooped around town chanting a six-stanza ode to Sam Hopkins, written to the tune of Davy Crockett. Sample stanza...
...Republican love feast, Delaware's Governor J. (for James) Caleb Boggs named amateur Poetess Virginia Knight, bride of California's Governor Goodwin J. ("Goody") Knight, as an honorary poet laureate of Delaware. The work especially appealing to Boggs's eye was a two-stanza poem, dashed off by Virginia last week in Washington, where her husband was attending the governors' conference (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) with President Eisenhower. Title: The President Smiled at Me. Excerpts: "The President smiled at me/ And every fiber of emotion swelled within my soul . . ./ So deep was my humility . . ./ When the President...
gttf 1 abounds with humorous pen and ink sketches. In this particular it departs somewhat from its slightly older fraters, who rely only on the stanza arrangement of their verses to provide comic relief. I think it is enough to say that the primitivistic, etc., themes pervade these drawings, and to conclude from them that gttf 1 has not yet reached that pinnacle of sound literary achievement from which it may return to the cradle and proceed to make pictures of words...
...rough Wolverines jumped to a quick 2-0 lead in the opening period and stayed ahead at 4-2 in the second stanza, although the determined Crimson skaters consistently managed to fight the puck into the Michigan zone. Center Bill Cleary was the varsity's offensive standout as he broke the all-time NCAA scoring record with his second goal unassisted in the middle period...
...slap shot by Mahoney at 1:29 in the final stanza brought the varsity within one goal of Michigan's elusive lead, but one minute later Captain McFarland was off again, and the Wolverines all but extinguished the Crimson's hopes for its first national title with two quick goals...