Word: alack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is a very melancholy occasion. The Campus wears an air of desolation. The robins on the green have suspended their animation and are belatedly scurrying from the deluge. Mournful ejaculations of "well-a-day" and "alack" ascend from the midnight cloister. Even the "A" men are trembling in their boots. It is all rather...
...much rather play before a crowd of kids from sixteen to twenty than I would before a crowd of middle aged folks. That's the truth. The younger generation are saying alas and alack with Mozart and the rest. They want something lively, and sentimental. Some time ago I toured the South with Cab Calloway--we played before crowds of these southern debutantes. They almost wont crazy over the hot stuff. Why, after the dances they used to crowd around us to get our autographs, and honestly, there was always more of a group around Cab, even in the South...
...JACK* Cry all, "Alack!" And wring your hands in vain! SAM, JACK, and BEN, Cry all, "Amen!" In triplicate refrain! For you, I fear, This flying year By AMY are stir passed, Whom all the new Johnsonian crew Now welcome home at last...