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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whaddya wanna do, sing 'Sonny Boy?'"That is Broadway's latest wisecrack to victims who complain unduly, or to friends grown maudlin in their cups. In England, "Sonny Boy," a super-saccharine ballad of child love introduced by Blackface Singer Al Jolson in his latest sound film, is still new and popular. More, it has become a Conservative campaign song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stanley Boy | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

THIS book is a cunning exposition of the love life between a Frenchman and a Marmoset. Its esoteric appeal will be at once evident by the following quotation. "Me. I am hees muzzaire, hees seestaire, le consort of hees soul, le angel of his destinay! she declaimed passionately." Here in a few words is a compact, clear, concordance of the incest theme, inherited through Racine from the great Greeks. The French with their superior sensibility for inferring symbolically the heart of the situation, substitute here a small animal, a marmoset, for the loved one, thereby reducing the horror...

Author: By L. K., | Title: BOOKENDS | 5/22/1929 | See Source »

Another old story. Haircut, proves Lardner brilliant in technique. The village barber, shearing a newcomer, drawls bits of village gossip that slowly arrange themselves into a small drama of love, jealousy, and murder done by an impressionable idiot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lardner, U.S.A. | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...laid, were penciled with the date and the name of the mother, and were then distributed among his friends, or sparingly eaten at his own meals. To eat a chicken itself was a kind of cannibalism from which his whole nature shrank. "I do not eat what I love," he said, rejecting the bowl of chicken broth I pressed upon him in his last sickness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idiosyncracies of Professor Sophocles, Famous Harvard Scholar, of Last Century Narrated by Professor Palmer | 5/14/1929 | See Source »

...program is as follows: Harvard Hymn Paine Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Williams Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Bach Shoot False Love Morley Galway Piper An Irish Folk Song In Dulei lubilo An Ancient German Carol Prayer of Thanksgiving Netherlands Folk Song College Songs

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECOND YARD CONCERT TO BE HELD ON WIDENER STEPS | 5/14/1929 | See Source »

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