Word: ain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Children do more to determine the length of popularity of a piece of music than does any other factor," said Wendall Hall, composer of "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More", "Underneath the Mellow Moon". "Land of my Sunset Dreams", and other popular musical selections, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday...
...Music seems to run in cycles," continued the entertainer. "We have had the Hawaiian cycle and the Blues cycle, the one in which oriental types of music were most popular, and then the verse type, the one in which 'It Ain't Gonna Rain No More' was popular. Present day popular music may be classed in what is known as the 'Hokum type...
...fine sense of humor are the prime requisites for a cartoonist," declared Clare Briggs, America's leading cartoonist in an interview with the CRIMSON. Briggs whose drawings are published in over 175 American newspapers, is the author of a number of series of cartoons, among the best known being "Ain't it a Grand and Glorious Feelin'?", "When a Feller Needs a Friend." "Someone is Always Taking the Joy Out of Life", "Mr. and Mrs.", and "Real Folks at Home...
...sins of the parents are visited upon the children nowhere so noticeably as in the children's vocabulary. Wherefore teachers of Public School No. 58, Manhattan, have devised a discipline, published last week, of fining each school child five cents for each "ain't," "he don't," double negative, etc. The punishment of the child is thus visited upon the parents. One small boy ran up a bill of 40c, obliging his mother to invent eight errands for him to run at a nickel per errand...
...defect. Thrifty pupils come to regard bad grammar as a luxury. Said a seven-year-old economist: "Sure, I use bad grammar, but I wait till I'm out in the street, see?" Said a self-indulgent eight-year-old, displaying a dime: "Momma give me two ain'ts for my birthday...