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This wyl is in my herte, and ay shal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/14/1936 | See Source »

Composer Metz also claims he wrote that other ragtime classic. Ta-Ra-Ra- Boom-De-Ay, a matter of dispute since the tune may have sprung from oldtime honky-tonks as did Frankie & Johnny, or may have been written by one of Metz's colleagues, the late Henry J. Savers. For writing A Hot Time, which Publisher Marks estimates has sold more than 1,000,000 copies, Composer Metz still receives royalties from its frequent cinema and radio performances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Old Ragtimer | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

...Ay, bonito!" roared the marketmen and cut off the dead bull's ears, again just like old times. They sent Antonio Sanchez home with all the cabbages, turnips, beans, he could carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Torero Tension | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

...Majesty George the Fifth. King of England. Ireland and Scotland, and Emperor of India." Now then, a few of the kahlege kids thought the title should end up with somethin' grand and splendiferous-someihin' suggestin' the glory of England.-like "tarantara. tarantara, BOOM-de-ay-BOOM-de-ay-BOOM!'' But a old farmer got up in the group an' said, "We all know th' English people is a fine, good-hearted people, an' George V is a real king, an' no mistake, but. drat it all. they is a limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 26, 1934 | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

...custom. . . . It is ant-Scriptural. . . . Christ never used it, the Apostles never used it, and the New Testament Church never used it, . . . God has abundantly answered the Biblical method of prayer. Is there any evidence that He prefers the recent innovation?" The Oxford and Webster dictionaries give preference to "ay-men," Webster stipulating that when sung it should be "ah." Stemming from the Hebrew through Greek, Latin, French and Old English, "amen" means "truly" or "verily"; "Be it so really!"; "It is so in truth"; "finis." Europeans and Russians all use the same word. Its liturgical use by congregations began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ahhhhhhmen | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

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