Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right, a trailer bus deposited 18 red-robed council regents outside the court. They formed up behind the boys' choir. Carrying burning tapers, the procession marched into the jammed court and up toward the velvet-draped bier. After a short scripture reading, the choir began to sing Mrs. Bond's The Hand of You. Then white-maned Rufus B. von KleinSmid, Chancellor of the University of Southern California, began the "narration:" "No vote of critics, no surge of publicity can elect a composer to the shrine reserved for those who write our folk music. Only the voices...
...laurel crown has long been recognized as the traditional symbol of immortality-therefore, by this token, and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Council of Regents ... I do herewith pronounce Carrie Jacobs-Bond an immortal of the Memorial Court of Honor." He placed the crown on the bier...
Caniff seldom heard more than querulous peeps out of Colonel Bertie McCormick's Chicago end of the Tribune-Daily News axis. Sample: early in 1941 he was informed that Colonel McCormick "objects to Defense Bond stamps being used in the comics, so will you please refrain from using them." And once McCormick and Patterson, reading Terry together, came to a sequence where the lissome Burma was carrying on with a German named Keel. "Why," said the Colonel, turning to his cousin in alarm: "Burma is living with that...
During the decade when the U.S. moved to a pre-eminent position in world affairs, community-minded Cleveland began to discuss foreign relations as avidly as it had discussed neighborhood playgrounds, transit regulations and bond issues...
Died. Carrie Jacobs Bond, 84, whose sentimental ballads (I Love You Truly, Just A-wearyin' for You, A Perfect-Day) have become almost U.S. folk songs; in Hollywood...