Word: lyrically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lectures on Money and Banking by Professor J. H. Williams (himself one of the leading Thespians of the Economics Department) it was a bit of a surprise to see some two hundred cash customers waiting for seats in the Metropolitan lobby. Let us grant the truth of the lyric that "without a song a man's no good nohow" and say that those people were waiting to hear a song, "42nd Street." They had heard it, perhaps, as the Playgoer did, over the radio the night before. Even in the stage show, the best sequence was some hotcha dance routine...
...opened an opera chorus school, the only one in the U. S. outside New York. He appointed Adolph Bolm who used to dance with the Diaghilev Ballet to start ballet classes. Said Signor Merola: "We are going to teach in our school everything that has to do with the lyric stage. . . . We have 5,000 operagoers here in San Francisco. They have 20,000 in New York-possibly 80,000 in the whole country. What is that in a population of 120,000,000? We are going to try to broaden this audience...
...songs represent something of an anomaly: Dryden, the greatest of English neo-classic writers has excelled himself as a lyric poet; and further he wrote the best of them, "Alexander's Feast," at the age of sixty-six, when the fire of most songsters has long since died. Dryden's lyric gift was constant throughout his long and varied literary career. The songs are some of them in the tradition of Catullus and Robert Herrick, some in that of the popular English plain-song. They are most exquisite when most indecent, and very beautiful both when...
Vexed, the editor completely revises the synopsis, makes elaborate suggestions for a proper Soviet lyric. Docile, the poet does exactly as he is told, produces an effusion which the Zamoisk Spooler publishes under an eight-column streamer reading...
Dazzled by permission to write a love lyric for the imaginary newspaper Zamoisk Spooler, imaginary Poet Vasya Gribakin submits to his editor this synopsis of what he proposes to write...