Word: fain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offered one explanation of the temporary Communist success: "There are 190 registered votes in this commune. Fifty-six of them voted Communist at the last elections. With two or three exceptions, the 56 were all young men and women. Communism in the rural districts is the party of the fainéants (lazy no-goods). Young people here don't want to work any more; they don't want to work from dawn till sunset, as I did, and my father, and my grandfather. They don't want to bend down...
...They have pretty good pitching (Phil Marchildon, Dick Fowler, Bob Savage, Russ Christopher), mediocre fielding, and almost the weakest hitting in the league (Outfielder Barney McCoskey is the only .300 hitter). What can't be measured statistically is their hustle, a lot of it contributed by Rookie Ferris Fain and Shortstop Eddie Joost. One day recently, Star Pitcher Marchildon was being pretty casual about his pre-game warmup. Shouted one of Connie's enthusiastic young men: "Look, if you don't want to pitch today, let somebody else do it!" Marchildon pitched...
Toplitzky of Notre Dame (book & lyrics by George Marion Jr., music by Sammy Fain, produced by William Cahn) proclaims openly what many football coaches may have secretly suspected: that Notre Dame football teams are divinely guided. The proof: God sends down an angel to play in an otherwise all-too-human Notre Dame backfield. Then matters get ungodly involved. Just before the big Army game, the angel (Warde Donovan) falls in love with an innkeeper's daughter (Betty Jane Watson), is sternly ordered home. But at the last minute Heaven relents. The angel is made man for keeps, gets...
Hitting all the flat notes of "Abie's Irish Rose," this caponized musical comedy is distinguishable from a high-school senior show only by the tunefulness of Sammy Fain's songs and the occasional appearances on stage of Miss Vivienne Segal of "Pal Joey" fame. And since Miss Segal isn't visible for more than 20 minutes, one wonders why she ever became enmeshed in this melange of heavenly half-backs, very un-Celtic wans of the Fighting Irish, and the 1946 Army-Notre Dame game...
...edition has sought the simplicity and clarity of the King James version without its often obscure Elizabethan quaintness. Gone are "thee" and "thou" except where God is addressed. Gone are such phrases as "is come," "would fain," such words as "divers" and "privily...