Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yeats was known among his English classmates as "mad Yeats." The school, he wrote, "was an obscene bullying place, where a big boy would hit a small boy in the wind to see him double up, and where certain boys, too young for any emotion of sex, would sing the dirty songs of the streets...
...Thompson had been writing music for Hollywood musicals for years, and auditioning her own songs. M-G-M Producer Arthur Freed would say: "Kay, you sang that great. You are terrific. Now, who will we get to sing it?" No candy-box beauty, lean, angular Kay Thompson was simply one of the well-paid but subsidiary hirelings that some Hollywoodians call "movie trash." Last week, movie trash had become nightclub treasure...
...Clubs will alternate for most of the program and then get together to sing "Old Nassau," "Fair Harvard" and an American folk song. G. Wallace Woodworth '24, professor of Music, will conduct the Harvard singers, sharing the podium with Princetonian J. Merrill Knapp...
...nostalgic female voice reveals over the sound-track that "there sits Mother." Fortunately, the picture rapidly retreats into the past, showing Mother when, as the title does not quite suggest, she was a vaudeville performer. This puts Betty Grable into some abruptly terminated costumes and allows her to sing and dance, a combination that has made about twenty otherwise unattractive movies into hits. Like its predecessors, "Mother Wore Tights" has a load of good musical numbers, but falls apart whenever its characters temporarily try to behave like reasonable facsimiles of human beings...
...Right to Sing the Blues...