Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is some good music written by Sigmund Rombert and in one song? "Pizarro Was a Very Narrow Man"? Irving Caesar has turned out a rollicking lyric. The book, by Otto Harbach, is usually plausible...
...Lyric: "Blackbirds". A musical show of some color...
...took 5,719 actors, 255 authors, 55 librettists, 101 composers, 86 lyric writers, 54 sketch writers, 202 stage directors, 36 dance directors, 93 scenic designers and 72 scenic executors to present the year's shows. Records...
...torch" song is one in which the theme and lyric express the deep affection, often unappreciated, which the crooner bears for the object of his or her devotion. Such a song Ivy Stevens (Mayo Methot) sang for Howard Palmer (Reed Brown Jr.), women's wear drummer, one July night at a flashy roadhouse on the outskirts of Cincinnati. Howard was sitting behind a bower of chemically pink paper roses so Ivy did not see when he left, but she got the note he scribbled on the back of a menu saying that although they had been very happy together...
...Helen Choate Bell prize, awarded for theses of merit in the field of American literature, was won by William E. Wilson 1G, of Evansville, Indiana. The John Osborne Sargent prize, for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace, was won by Roland Marandin Minns '31, Davison scholar of Surrey, England. The selection for 1929-1930 was the fifth ode of the third book of Horace...