64 In Memoriam: CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1890—1957) Reprinted from The Commonweal, 1946 THE RAM'S HORN I blow on my shofar (Or conch, which is shellfish) A note of the solemnest. History, so...
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191 Poems on Postcards Song of the Small-Nations Delegate I'm doing the best that I'm able But procedural trouble retards:— The Big Four keep putting the table On top of the...
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June al, z946 THE COMMONWEAL 237 Colonel Marcum went on to ray that a few months after Ed Yoak had been buried when interest in the crime had somewhat abated, a tall, bowlegged, gangling,...
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r38 THE COM I am here with my hair singed completely off of my head, with my legs pra~ticaUy twisted from one side to another. You don't have any regard to my position. All you want to do is to...
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548 THE COMMONWEAL March 15, 1946 Poems on Postcards Overstate of the Union The state of the union is this, chiefly: No one since Lincoln says things briefly. It would help our politicoes...
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428 THE COMMONWEAL February 8, 1946 The Ram's Horn I blow on my shofar (Or conch, which is shellfish) A note of the solemnest. History, so far, From Cave Man to columnist Seems for the...
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The Sheep Meadow Speech As it might have been, Central Park, New York City, Navy Day, 1945 Christopher M or ley I'M GLAD this happens in the Sheep Meadow. There are so many interesting...
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September 28, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 569 The Laws of War 1. A rule to encourage Those sacking a village: What We do, is forage; What They do, is pillage. II. Another antimony In the great pageant:...
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July 6, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 281 Momentum In the Flag Loft at the Navy Yard I watched them sewing stars. They gave me a handful; As an officer charmingly said "A momentum for you." Stars that...
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More Books of the Week My Days of Anger. James T. Farrell. Vanguard. $2.75. WHEN YOU are living in a foreign country and you get a book from home you do not read that book in the way you would...
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To Hilaire Bclloc Soldier of France and/or John Bull's bad boy You never knew (why should you?) long ago How many, by contagion of your joy, Took suit and service with you. It was so. They...
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May 9, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL IN MEMORIAM: ED DOONER A FOREWORD BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS YEARS ago—in 1922, to be exact—I wrote to Christopher Morley, when that Elizabethan spirit, who has been...
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