Word: lullabye
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VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES: A WORLD OF SONG (Angel). All these songs are well known, and several are chestnuts. All the more wonder that Soprano de los Angeles has produced a fresh and enlightening record. She gives La Paloma a relaxed performance, full of a sly, feminine humor; her gypsy...
A few budding governments have composed their own. Senegal's anthem ("The red Lion has roared/The Tamer of the Bush has jumped forward") was written by Poet-President Leopold Senghor, Jamaica's by the Minister of Industry, the Ivory Coast's by its Information Minister. Malaysia expropriated...
Sir: Wilfred J. Funk's listing of the ten most beautiful words in the English language [June 11] was a challenge to use them all in one short sentence. "The luminous mist rose from the murmuring brook at the hush of dawn with a melody like a tranquil lullaby...
Died. Mary Boland, 80, light-headed comedienne, who starred opposite the late John Drew in a number of serious roles before taking a comedy part with Alfred Lunt in Clarence in 1919, won such raves that she thereafter played the fluttery dowager or scatterbrained mother for 35 years on Broadway...
Son of the founder of Funk & Wagnails, publisher of dictionaries and encyclopedias, Funk joined the family firm after graduating from Princeton, where he was class poet and began absorbing all the world's words. He became company president in 1925, later started his own publishing house (Wilfred Funk, Inc...