Word: gray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Back Room Will Have, the show has been given a special musical score, some vaudeville trimmings, considerable entr'activity. A good-looking girl in a slinky dress perches for the evening atop a piano, and between scenes, leads the boys in such old favorites as The Old Gray Mare, The Bowery...
...pair of kneeling-stools arrived anonymously while Faculty members gave other articles such as candlesticks. A friend of one of the students, William H. Fex, 2Dv., sewed the altar cloth, and the gray-colored material back of the altar. The men are hoping that, some time in the future, they can acquire a phonograph with records, and perhaps some books...
...what I called the Rainbow Division, evidently founded by the color-loving Joseph during his stay with the Pharaohs. His tunic was a thing of radiant beauty if viewed from after, and his helmet shimmered in the African glare of the kleig lights. Bung was a nobody, a gray sort of individual with no color at all in his makeup. We sneered at him as a useless character, but he was to get his revenge...
Songwriter Hanby was just the right age, 23 and a sophomore at small Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio, when he wrote Darling Nelly Gray, in 1856. What caused it was a boyhood memory: when he was a child, a fugitive slave stopping at his father's house had told how his sweetheart, Nelly Gray, had been sold into slavery. Hanby mailed the manuscript to a Boston publisher. The song swept the nation, sold more copies than any previous song except Foster's Old Folks at Home...
...Hanby had failed to copyright his song. First inkling he had that it was in print came a year later, when he saw it in a Columbus, Ohio music store. He wrote to his publisher. Came the reply: "Nelly Gray is sung on both sides of the Atlantic. We have made the money and you the fame. That balances the account." Songwriter Hanby hired a lawyer, who settled for $100, kept half as his commission...