Word: dum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made the accompanying sketch as she turned to another interlocuter and then asked her if I could have a few minutes alone with her. She said okay and then scampered off to the piano and sang a song which she insisted we all sing with her. We all sang dum-de-dum like we do in the Stadium, and she danced around while we sang. She's awfully cute...
...would have asked him to write it"). The second was too complicated. But the third, consisting of simple tunes with skeletal, guitarlike accompaniments, rang the bell. Composer Kay scoured source books for western tunes, came up with twelve of them, from Old Taylor, Rye Whisky and Lolly-Too-Dum to Red River Valley (which he used as a unifying theme). Balanchine took the piano sketch to his rehearsal hall and roughed in dance movements with his company. When Balanchine & Co. got back from a successful West Coast tour last month, the score was ready. Last week in Manhattan...
Waltzes & Blushes. After dinner the President and First Lady led their guests to the East Room, to the dum-dum-de-dum strains of the wedding march from Lohengrin. There was a short string concert by members of the Air Force Symphony Orchestra, and then Ike helped pass around the West Point song books. For two hours the Class of 1915 sang the old songs, with assistance from the orchestra...
...members who have never worked together. Naturally, woodshedding is considered a complex form of quartet work, since it calls for correct harmony and a working repertory of dozens of songs. This is no place for a crow (a nonsinging member who might sometimes toss in an ad-lib dum-dee-dee-dee), but calls for S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. men who can drop (the bass singer drops down one octave at the close of the song), scoop (hitting a note on the flat side and sliding up to proper pitch) and swipe (singing a progression of two or more chords on a single...
...equipped with expansion chambers to absorb the shock wave, they were almost noiseless, and each was equipped to fire three kinds of bullets: small lead pellets for merely stunning victims, nickeled-steel bullets that proved capable of penetrating 2¼ in. of pine board at 24 ft., and dum-dum slugs smeared with a mixture of potassium cyanide...