Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This song, New San Antonio Rose, may baffle or even irritate fastidious rhetoricians, and its tune is strictly golden bantam. Yet last week Decca Records reported that in January alone the song had sold 84,500 discs-sung by the Caruso of the juke boxes, bland Bing Crosby...
...creature." As a painter she delivers some of the most firmly structural, curiously cleansed landscapes in U. S. writing. As an anthropologist she is almost too sharply aware of the symbolic undertones of rural living: she cannot describe a torn sheep or a potato-digging without suggesting The Golden Bough or the poetry of St.-Joan Perse (Alexis Leger). As a woman Elizabeth Madox Roberts has her principal strength, her ultimate weakness. Her strength is an exquisite sensitiveness to the subtlest personal emotions, and to the quieter values of a well-executed prose. Her weakness is a sort of thin...
...looked with consternation at the thickness of the volume he chose and pushing away the green bags laid it down in the nearest empty space. Sadly he gazed out the window, drinking in a last look at the golden winter afternoon. The room was as yet relatively empty, and the soughing of the wind was broken only by the melancholy, far-distant clanking of the steam heating system. He roused himself from his dreaming and started to sit down. He was sleepy, and filled with the quiet content of one who has had a good time the night before...
...white singer was Burl Ives (full name: Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives), who sang a ballad he picked up in Ohio, The Bold Soldier. A onetime Eastern Illinois State Teachers College footballer, Burl Ives bummed around the U. S. with a guitar. His specialty is Midwestern songs. The foot-tapping Golden Gate Quartet (TIME, Jan. 27), who went to Washington by taxi ($100 round trip), sang Noah and Things Are Gonna Come My Way. Negro Joshua White, who sings at rehearsals with a lighted cigaret behind his ear, sang John Henry, Man Goin' Roun' Takin' Names...
...same cut of the gate which Tom Yawkey has been getting. This would be a sounder solution of B.C.'s problem than the proposed Boston municipal stadium, "The Beanbowl." Harvard, too, would gain. Without any increased emphasis on the brawny side of college life, the H.A.A. could get a golden nest-egg to tide the athletics program through the lean days ahead...