Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Color Question (Aug.). In Columbus, Ohio, a housepainter, exasperated by the endless questions of three-year-old Harold Thompson, painted him red, sent him home. Scrubbed, the boy returned, got a battleship grey treatment...
...question: How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? For the land in which the slaves found themselves was strange beyond the . fact that it was foreign. It was a nocturnal land of vast, shadowy pine woods, vast fields of cotton whose endless rows converged sometimes on a solitary cabin, vast swamps reptilian and furtive-a land alive with all the elements of lonely beauty, except compassion. In this deep night of land and man, the singers saw visions; grief, like a tuning fork, gave the tone, and the Sorrow Songs were uttered...
...shall go further than this. Not only is there no Santa Claus; we also believe that Christmas should be abolished. Space does not permit a fuller catalogue of our reasons; let the expense, the inevitable annual deterioration of mental stability and the endless irritation of Bing Crosby singing "White Christmas" argue for themselves...
Along with his Christmas recitals, an endless chain of anecdotes have sprung up about 86-year-old Charles Townsend Copeland. There is the unauthenticated tale of his becoming eligible for a professorship only to be stymied by the fact that he had no Ph.D. Faced with the problem of locating someone who could give Copey an oral examination, the board gave up in despair and waived the requirement. To this day he holds only a Doctor of Letters award...
...years that followed, years in which his personal popularity was still high, he seemed haunted by the words of a song he had written as a youth. Its title: Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May? New York did, and showed it in the endless, anxious ringing of telephones as he lay dying at Manhattan's Doctors' Hospital...