Word: heigh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...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...
...Sunday afternoon, while Their Majesties were resting at Hyde Park, NBC rallied a thin red line of Hollywood's British players, put on a full hour of British-accented heigh-ho. Cissie Loftus sang My Old Dutch, Vivien Leigh and Basil Rathbone recited from the Brownings; and Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce and C. Aubrey Smith O. B. E. sang Three Little Fishies (see p. 47). Having thus offered Their Majesties some idea of the state of the Empire in Hollywood, the gathering, 44 strong, responded to a champagne toast proposed by U. S.-born Play Actor George...
Moonfaced, blue-shirted Richard Watts Jr. (Herald Tribune), was formerly the H. T's cinema critic. Boyish (Broadway's loudest heigh-hoer of good-looking actresses), he is also thoughtful (Broadway's briskest champion of social-minded plays). Often acute, Watts chiefly errs in being too rhapsodic about what he likes...
Instead of snorting: "Slush!" Grumpy (Grincheux) sniffs: "Que c'est moche!" Hit tunes: Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho, Pour chasser les ennuis (Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, To Make Our Troubles Go), Sifflez en travaillant (Whistle While You Work...