Word: ballading
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...HARP WEAVER AND OTHER POEMS-Edna St. Vincent Millay- Harper ($2.00). Lyrics, sonnets and one unforgettable ballad by one of the very first of our poets...
...wheel of time rolled on and only an American ballad kept the memory of this dreadful deed green. Then a short time ago a clever reporter came upon a man registering at a hotel as E. Robinson Casey. With sudden inspiration he cried. "Why, did you do it?" "I couldn't help it," Mr. Casey replied in a dull and automatic tone, "the umpire called 'em wrong...
None of the acting was distinguished, though Mary Carroll, as the daughter of the hills, carried the burden of the evening satisfactorily. George Thompson, her ancient father, proved the accuracy of the old descriptive ballad : "' Oh, mountaineers have furry ears...
...BALLAD OF WILLIAM SYCA-more: by Stephen Vincent Benet. The Back Row Book Shop, Inc.: New York, New Haven, Princeton...
...public recitations as the greatest high-frequency ballad in American history. On his eightieth birthday d'Arcy learned that the Prohibition forces had been using his ballad as dry propaganda for years. As the poet intended it as a special pleading for free drinks for poor down-and-outers, he is very, very angry...