Word: stanzas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colombia schools, Roman Catholic teachers now teach children a 20-stanza song called El Protestantismo. Sample...
Died. Franklin Lee Stevenson, 63, who, when down on his luck in 1924, hit upon an inspiration and a career as the "undertakers' poet laureate," at a starting fee of $1 a stanza; of a heart ailment; in Chicago. His idea blossomed into a service called the Poet's Study, which circulated Stevenson's booklets to more than 200 mortuaries, which in turn passed canned condolences to mourners. His own self-authored epitaph closes: "Ah, there's not a thing to fear...
...stanza in the 1951 verse likens "Lionel, Lehman, Littauer, Lamont" and several other buildings to "a litter of pups conceivably aired by Hollis and Stoughton...
...recent years the old modern has turned to writing poems that carry the same simple message as his art. His preface to Miserere concludes with this stanza...
Yale scored to start the third stanza, but Crimson Captain Mauricio Toro sank a long shot and Johnny Youmans tallied on a scramble to put the Yardlings ahead, 3 to 2. However, Eli captain Whit McQuarrie clinched season scoring honors by sinking a direct free-kick to tie the game at 10:15 of the last quarter...