Word: frogging
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...Sandburg poem, Prairie, was the inspiration for a cantata by Foss which won him a citation from the New York Music Critics Circle in 1944. The Mark Twain story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, became the basis for a one-act opera which was produced last week by Manhattan's new After Dinner Opera Co. It was just about the livest and jumpin'est opera yet turned out by a young composer...
...stores do a thriving business selling spiritualist charms. There is Attraction Incense, incense "to vibrate the powers of Lady Luck," Compelling Incense, High Conquering Incense ("Its fumes the steppingstone to the mighty conqueror condition"). Harder to find are the brujos, who cure asthma by hanging a tiny dead green frog in a bag around the neck...
...most abstract paintings in the series were not a bit "modern." Peter Nielson, who painted Alaska, is a Frog Indian whose work owes everything to his totem-pole-making ancestors. Painter Nielson was pleased to get the job, but explained that as the fish were running it would take him a couple of months to get around to it. In due time he shipped a six-foot-square totemic design, painted on cedar boards, airmail to Chicago. Like Nielson, Hopi Indian Fred Kabotie, who painted Arizona, refused to submit preliminary sketches. He hastened into the desert, shot a mule deer...
...saleslady was giving a sample playing of some bird song records. They were on vinylite and sounded authentic. Besides the bird records, the Audubon Society was selling books on birds, paper weights in the from of birds, bird boxes, wallpaper with birds on it, and an album of recorded frog croaks entitled "Voices of the Night...
Argued the U.M.W.'s frog-voiced little Lawyer Welly Hopkins: it was not unreasonable at all. Each miner, sore at the operators' refusal to come to terms with Lewis, had simply laid down his tools and refused to work. As for complying with Judge Keech's order, the U.M.W. was also "disappointed" when the men didn't do as Lewis had twice told them and go back to work...