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...Snow White. Their burlesque song-&-dance routine, hilarious, eminently crowish, is typical of the good circus humor that bubbles through the picture. They have one of the best (When I See an Elephant Fly) of Dumbo's nine tuneful melodies, none of which compares with the singable Heigh-Ho. One (Look Out for Mr. Stork) has lyrics that are open to smart-alecky interpretation when removed from the picture's context...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 27, 1941 | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...McNary of Oregon for his running mate (see p. 16), Mr. Willkie appeared in person. He had prepared no speech. On the way out, he had turned over some sentences in his mind. With Mrs. Willkie he walked down the centre aisle, while the band blared his theme song Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho! It's Back to Work We Go, Republicans cheered, balloons and confetti rained down from the galleries. Said Wendell Willkie, shaking his big head: "Forty-eight days, and only forty-eight days ago, I started out to preach to the American people the doctrine of unity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gentleman from Indiana | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

...head is revolving," says Bishop Kinsolving, Heigh-ho, we'll blow the man down. "I'll drink till I totter," says Rt. Rev. Potter. . . . "To hell with white ribbons," says good Cardinal Gibbons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Trinity to Trinity | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...last week the contemporary song hits most widely sung by British troops were far from martial. Besides Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho (TIME, Sept. 25) they were: 1) the Beer Barrel Polka; 2) Little Sir Echo, current U. S. hit, a favorite song of U. S. Campfire Girls; 3) South of the Border, with its nostalgic refrain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Musical Munitions | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Chopin wrote the score for Poland's agony (see p. 25"), Walt Disney supplied a marching song for the Western Front. British Tommies reworded the work carol of the Seven Dwarfs in Snow White and, as they moved toward their posts in the Maginot Line last week, sang: "Heigh-ho, heigh-ho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Never Give Up | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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