Word: derring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music of Der Fuehrer's Face [TIME, Nov. 2] sounds to me like the song my German-born in-laws sang in the old country...
Leading all war songs on the juke-box popularity poll was the season's wackiest satirical item, Der Fuehrer's Face, which sold out its initial edition of 100,000 records ten days after its release three weeks ago. A medley of bronx cheers and polka-dottiness that has to be heard to be appreciated, Der Fuehrer's Face last week seemed well on its way to become the comic theme song of World War II. The song was written by Walt Disney's Tunesmith Oliver Wallace for a picture originally entitled Donald Duck in Nutzi...
...chill mouth, the lean rigor of his face, the green blaze in his eyes, many German women have found something fearful and attractive. Common soldiers, and even his fellow Prussians, sometimes saw in him a quality which they shunned and derided. They called him der Sterber ("the Dier"). They called themselves "Bock's own dying heroes." But, at his command, they fought well, and by the thousands they died. With the abundance of guns, tanks and planes which Bock gave them, they drove the men of the Red Army from the hills, the valleys and the villages before Stalingrad...
...Nineteenth-Century America was uninhibited in joshing racial groups. Among its targets: Irishmen ("McCracken lost an upper lip, McCloskey lost an eye''), Germans ("Der nicest ting as neffer vas Iss valk dot Broadway down"), Jews ("Oh! what a show of noses, among the Sheenies in the sand"), Negroes ("A dark night, a nigger and a chicken, You can bet that they are mighty close friends"). Likewise open and to the point was it on the recurring theme of boy & girl. Instead of Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? It went to bat with...
...entertainer of the '90s was Mama Lou, gnarled, coal-black songstress in a St. Louis brothel. (Paderewski was once taken to hear her sing, became captivated.) A wellspring of melody, Mama Lou emerges as the probable source of three hits of the '90s: Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-Der-E, There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, May Irwin's Bully Song...