Word: chanteys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lindsay never said quite the same thing before, but the blatant tone of voice is unmistakably his. He is a hell-raiser whose hair is never brushed; like his latest book, he is "aggressive, however sinful and full of pride." Two good poems appear-one an old-style Lindsay chantey, "The Virginians Are Coming Again," and "Twenty Years Ago," a rambling epistle to some anonymous and scornfully rejected patron. As usual, Poet Lindsay wanU these poems to be chanted, hopes that none of them will be set to music. In his recent sojourn in Spokane Poet Lindsay evolved what...
...story. The foreground is Lupe Velez, who sings attractively and shrilly through her teeth. Gary Cooper is a gangling Kentucky boy who loves and kidnaps a Mexican girl and is harassed at last by the conflict between his memory of the girl's sweet singing and the fleering chantey of the mountaineers...
...Captain Hal, who had turned in the best trial times, and Kentucky Cardinal, also impressive in trial, were popular. Sande was up on Flying Ebony, stable mate to G. A. Cochran's Coventry, Preakness winner. The Whitney-Greentree Stables' entries had been weakened by the loss of Chantey, a last-minute scratch...