Word: singed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meantime a profound and troublous scene has occurred. Avoiding the acute battlefront description of such books as All Quiet on the Western Front, such plays as Journey's End, Playwright O'Casey reveals a group of infantrymen encamped in a ruined apse behind the lines. There they sing songs of war-not bawdy ditties or rousing marches, but strange and awesome chants. This lyricism, now solo, now antiphonal, now choral, is a poetic, formalized utterance. The diction is abominable-words can only be guessed at-but the import of these Gaelic spirituals can be felt. Mystic and throbbing...
...under its weight of rather dull local color-Maoris feasting and testing their strength, hurled down hillsides by battle, or sticking out their tongues and making faces while they dance. Best shot: reflection in water of the great pattern of trees in which the tribe clings, swinging as they "sing a good-bye song for tribesmen going away. Venus (United Artists ). No poet's goddess of pearl rising from the dark blue of an Aegean wave is Constance Talmadge, but a distracted flippant Venus left over from a past, an extravagantly rococo period of the cinema. Action of this...
...hunter, first bawled "D'ye ken John Peel with his coat so gray"* in the cosy bar parlor of the Rising Sun Inn at Caldbeck, in the rough Cumberland hills. From the "Big Grass" county of Leicestershire, enthusiasts traveled north to Caldbeck, where Peel lies buried, to sing his song, to ride once more over the country that...
Applying electric currents to sensitive organs is a notorious method by which Bucharest gendarmes teach criminals to "sing" (confess). Last week the hardened police of Rumania's capital received new and congenial orders concerning motorists caught speeding...
...daring blonde girl" who ran away from home eight years ago and worked her way to Europe as a stewardess. Expecting a spirited, sprightly creature, her first audience was surprised to see an unusually large woman make a stolid entrance on the Carnegie Hall stage, to hear her sing in a strong, silken voice a recital which was consistently dull...