Word: stanzas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...versifying . . ." Voltaire once said, "is like dancing in fetters on a rope." For writers of light verse, the trick is to do the dance on a string. Most of them manage a light fantastic stanza or two, but soon fall flat on their anapests...
...Truman refusal lightly. To cool off the hot tempers in advance, Ross put together a Gridiron-style skit and song, entitled "When We Ride, We Always Ride with Harry." Then Ross and the three other Gridironers aboard the presidential train made a record of the skit. On the third stanza of the song ("When I laugh, I always laugh with Harry . . ."), Harry Truman himself added his bathtub baritone. He also sent his greetings to the Gridironers...
...bring me my arrows of desire!" But the editors' work was not merely a matter of selection and rejection. On the classic All Things Bright and Beautiful, for instance, only a minor pruning job seemed indicated to make it suitable for modern church singers: elimination of the third stanza...
...greatest hockey game since the war. The varsity sextet stunned BC with five goals in the first period, maintained that margin until midway through the final stanza and then fought off the frantic counterattack of the Eagles, a drive which netted four goals. And the final score was Harvard 9, Boston College...
...game was one of the slowest of the year, aside from a whirlwind start to the second period when Jim O'Brien took a Walt-Greeley pass in front of the nets and scored in the 19th second of the stanza. The one-sided story is best told by a comparison of saves--24 for Ed Smith of Andover and 11 for Corning...