Word: sonnets
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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More can be said for both the poetry and the book reviews which to a large extent bear the stamp of literary competency. Worthy of particular note is the "Sonnet" by J. R. Agee...
...later. Thatcher Colt, a combination of Grover Whalen and Philo Vance, was one of New York City's Police Commissioners you may never have heard about. "What [he] really wanted was to be a musician and poet (in deadly privacy he applied himself to the forms of the sonnet and the villanelle and practiced cadenzas on a flute) but unfortunately nature had made him a detective and, as he once told me, with that quirkish smile of his, 'Not even my duties as Police Commissioner shall keep me from the business of solving crimes...
China with a picture on it. Biddies, each in lacy bonnet, English accents, (grace a sonnet Said at mealtime...