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June 2016: Gawker Media Declares Bankruptcy

World News | Disasters & Science News Here's a slideshow depicting the major U.S. news events of June 2016. 1. Shooting on UCLA Campus 2. Paul Ryan Endorses Trump 3. Stanford…

June 2016: <i>Hamilton</i> Wins Best Musical

World News | Disasters & Science News Here's a slideshow depicting the major U.S. news events of June 2016. 1. Shooting on UCLA Campus 2. Paul Ryan Endorses Trump 3. Stanford…

Brewer's: Bouts-rimes

[rhymed-endings ]. A person writes a line and gives the last word to another person, who writes a second to rhyme with it, and so on. Dean Swift employs the term for a poem, each stanza of…

Brewer's: Diddle

(To). To cheat in a small way, as “I diddled him out of ...” Edgar Allan Poe has an article on the art of “Diddling.” Rhyming slang is very common. (See Chivy.) Fiddle and diddle rhyme. “…

The Celtic Twilight: The Last Gleeman

by W. B. Yeats Happy and Unhappy TheologiansRegina, Regina Pigmeorum, VeniThe Last Gleeman Michael Moran was born about 1794 off Black Pitts, in the Liberties of Dublin, in Faddle Alley.…

The Devil's Dictionary: Leonine

by Ambrose Bierce LEGACYLETTUCELEONINE -adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end, as in this famous…

Walt Whitman: To a Certain Civilian

To a Certain CivilianDid you ask dulcet rhymes from me? Did you seek the civilian's peaceful and languishing rhymes? Did you find what I sang erewhile so hard to follow? Why I was not singing…
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