Word: ballades
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...first public appearance as a ballad singer, Miss Grace Albert gave an encore-drawing recital of American and English folk music yesterday afternoon before a rain-soaked but none the less enthusiastic audience in the Poetry Room of Widener Library...
...vehicle, the most famous ballad opera after "The Beggar's Opera," was first given in Covent Garden in 1762--so successfully that the playgoers of the time deserted Drury Lane, and David Garrick barely escaped bankruptcy...
...Ballad singer Susan Reed smiled prettily yesterday over her slither-like "ever" lovin," pointed through a glass window to the cluster of WHHV official standing shyly in their control booth, and complained that although Harvard men are "fine," they always "hide in the next room...
Highwaymen, whose offense made them liable to gibbeting, were the heroes of low life throughout the period. Swift immortalized one such "knight of the pad" in his ballad, Clever Tom Clinch Going to Be Hanged...
...Gude Sir Patrick Spens" in the old Scottish ballad was "the best when sailor that ever sail'd the sea." Nevertheless, when the King assigned him to command a bad-weather cruise to Norway, gude Sir Patrick asked a question his namesake may have cause to repeat: "O wha is this has done this deed and tauld the king...