Word: balladeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charmed with their drowsy man-mountain, the Lilliputians rig up a conveyor belt to feed him, entertain him with a stage show in which a peewee ballet dances, a morose tenor sings a superb ballad (My Little Lilliput Girl) and a troupe of midgets, as small to the Lilliputians as the Lilliputians are to Gulliver, caper mysteriously in front of him. When a stage manager hits a midget with a stick. Gulliver perceives the sad truth: Lilliputia is a Capitalist nation. He speedily allies himself with the Workers Party, drags the Lilliputian navy out to sea, smiles when the frantic...
...schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; . . . Thus, nearly 100 years ago, did Longfellow begin his famed ballad of the wreck of the Hesperus on the reef of Norman's Woe. Last week, another schooner Hesperus, hailing from Gloucester, a few miles north of Norman's Woe, was sailing the sea off Cape Cod when...
Professor Rollins, "The Popular Ballad" Sever...
Atlantic City went after goodwill with whiskey, distributed in small bottles laneled DRINK A TOAST T0 YOUR '36 HOST , and a ballad which concluded...
Last week in Manhattan's Central Park, barber shop music was glorified in an American Ballad Contest held under the popular and versatile leadership of Park Commissioner Robert Moses. While preliminary contests of barber shop quartets were held during the summer in five New York boroughs and two adjacent counties, city employes scouted for authentic properties to transform a bandstand in the Park into a "tonsorial emporium" of the 1890's. They dug up three old barber chairs, Police Gazettes, a coal stove, a flyspecked clock, pictures of John L. Sullivan, Jim Jeffries, Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, a rack...