Word: lyricized
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...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...
...entertainment. Actually the entertainment value of King of Jazz is considerably less than that of an unelaborated concert by the Whiteman orchestra; the level of wit is indicated by such parodies as "All Noisy on the Eastern Front" and the "Bridal Veil" number in which, to an incredibly stupid lyric, "the brides of long ago" parade as they have paraded in vaudeville for 15 years...
...Lyric--"The Chocolate Soldier". Don't miss this...
...Praise of Practically Nothing, won the epithet "incomparable." The book was a refreshingly satirical draught from the Plutonian spring. Poet Hoffenstein's second book, Year In, You're Out, contains much the same kind of thing in much the same manner, but here is less satire, more lyric yearning. Again it is Poet Hoffenstein's sourer vein that suits him best...