Word: jubilo
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...Power seems the most American, the most unobtrusive, the most effective performer. In contrast, Judith Anderson's manner seems at times a little too elevated, Raymond Massey's a little too elocutionary. The chorus is well trained, but trained to do popular tricks. For every lusty "Jubili, Jubilo," there are a number of radio-like vocal gadgets and sound effects. Thus, over & over, the chorus-in a goblins'll-git-you voice-intones: "John Brown's body lies a mooolderin' in the grave." With the combined appeal of John Brown's stars...
...year ob Jubilo...
...field hands once sang the song in the flat Mississippi Valley fields where the St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) railroad meanders down from St. Louis to Memphis, then spraddles put over the Arkansas-Louisiana-Texas hinterland. This week the year of Jubilo began for the Cotton Belt's common stockholders. The Cotton Belt, which went bankrupt in 1935, finally paid a common stock dividend ($5), its first in its 57 years...
...Jubilo. It had been a good year. "The good land lay beneath the sun. And the mules with sleek sides . . . slid the flashing plows through the good land and laid it wide for planting. . . . The owners of the pale green striped fields pushed their feet deep into the pulverized ground. . . . Best stand we've had since Nineteen Twenty. We'll make a whopper of a crop this year...
Then the WPA came to Mississippi. The WP & A, the Taylors and their neighbors called it. It looked like the year of jubilo to them. "Lots of the folks is moving to town," said one of them, "I seen Steve Joe today and he told me the Social Worker had done notified him to come to town next Tuesday to have a intercourse with her so I guess he will be on the WP & A soon." The Taylors decided to go too. They had not bothered to tell their landlord they were leaving his crop in the fields...