Sunday, August 14, 2011
[1863 - Ernest Thayer, poet, writer,
born in Lawrence, Massachusetts]
[1867 - John Galsworthy, Nobel Prize-winning writer, born in Surrey, England]
[1909 - Ed Herlihy, radio & TV announcer,
born in Boston, Massachusetts]
[1926 - Alice Ghostley, Tony Award-winning actress, comedienne, born in Eve, Vernon County, Missouri]
[1929 - Dick Tiger (Richard Ihetu), Boxing Hall of Fame
champion middleweight, born in Amaigbo, Nigeria]
[1935 - President Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act]
[1945 - Original V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II]
[1947 - India is granted independence; remains in the British Commonwealth]
A Universe of words is so mundane.
What then to do to keep one sane?
If poetry be not the medium.
How now avoid the tedium?
William's Whimsical Words:
Goodness knows, one might try prose.
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