Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...else could have cried the song with the same blue, bittersweet sadness. No one else could have filled the familiar words with the same heart-heavy longing for rest and ease. So they turned on a phonograph and let Big Bill Broonzy sing Swing Low, Sweet Chariot at his own funeral...
...midnight to steal his day's pay. When highbrow critics filed his blues under "folk music," Bill snorted: "Folk songs? I don't know what they is. I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing...
...raise prices; local police pitched in to protect M-G-M props; the country club and five hotels and motels were turned over to the movie folk. Nothing so exciting had happened to the green, hilly little Ohio River town since P. T. Barnum brought Jenny Lind to sing in the Pork Palace...
...reminiscent scene of pre-revolutionary Moscow-the small houses and crooked side streets of the Cheryomushki district, near Moscow University. But before this sentimentality can get out of hand, bulldozers move in. All the old decadence is demolished, and a modern housing development rises on the ruins. Construction workers sing at their jobs; new tenants arrive; all is youth and enthusiasm. Friendships grow and love blossoms...
...their reputations. They earn up to $100,000 a year endorsing a manufacturer's golf clubs and balls, drawing royalties on every club sold bearing their name, holding down cushy jobs at swank country clubs, where they charge up to $50 a lesson. For a further fee, they sing the praises of cigarettes, fishing tackle and sport clothes. Playing only in occasional major events, the old pros find it hard to keep their game sharp enough for tournament competition...