Word: lyrical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mudguards of statesmen's limousines. The nations of the world were doing homage in this small Thuringian city. Here in 1919 the Constitution of the present German Republic was adopted. And in Weimar 100 years ago last week died Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Not only a poet, this lusty, lyric German philosopher was also a resourceful statesman, ever at the elbow of Weimar's reigning Grand Duke...
...there is nothing else to do. After two summers of perfect prenuptial flying, Vial goes back to his Paris shop, apparently to stay. Helene Clement will see to that. Colette takes Vial's departure a little hard. "I don't sing Vial's praises in a lyric strain. I regret him. ... I shall have no reason to magnify him until I begin to regret him less. He will come down-when my memory shall have achieved its capricious work which often deprives a monster of his hump or his horns, effaces a mountain, respects a straw...
Concerned with the moon, like that of almost all her rival crooners, her theme song is called "When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain." She is proud because she helped write the lyric. Kate Smith is so popular that last autumn she received a letter from the president of the Uniformed Firemen's Association of Greater New York saying that she had been chosen "Sweetheart of the Fire Department of the City of New York." She gave an even more convincing demonstration of her appeal when, with Funnyman Lou Holtz, she was a principal on the bill which smashed...
...translatable theme emerges from Author Coppard's tales: they are atmospheric, lyric rather than narrative, moonshiny, elusive...
...University Press has announced the appearance of three new books on its list of publications. Students of mediaeval literature will be especially interested in "The Pastourelle," a study of the origins and traditions of a lyric type, by Professor William Powell Jones, which was published last week. In his latest work the author has evaluated the literary influences of the time on, the pastourelle, but goes on to show that the chief inspiration was from popular sources. A chapter on the history of the genre after the Middle Ages throws some interesting light on French songs of the sixteenth...