Word: singing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weep no more my lady" over "the unquestionably evil influence exerted by popular nursery jingles" upon infant minds. But rather join in that nocturnal and nationally criminal chorus of wicked mothers, who love to sing when "quiet hour" comes, that "Old King Cole was a merry ol' soul," with all its accompanying nonsense, even though we know it to be lovely...
...lefts, made small men stand up in their chairs. The next three rounds were not so fast; the fighters were listless. The bell rang for the eighth, both boxers dragged languidly into action amid a salvo of boos. More flaccid pommeling, clinching, pushing. A raucous fan began to sing Every Hour I Knead Thee, was silenced. In the last two rounds, McTigue feebly rallied. Referee Lewis gave the victory to little Walker. McTigue kept his title, as the boxing law of New Jersey does not permit an official rendering of decisions. The vast crowd audibly wished that they had kept...
Before her as she wrote her adver-tisement came "the earnest faces of the 14,000 students of the University of Berlin, representing 17 nationalities, before whom I was invited ta sing and speak by the official heads of the University (I being the only American artist who had been thus invited)." And she wound up: "Never have I been so imbued with the desire to bring joy, to elevate the children through my art, my, pen and my deep religious convictions; and I am more earnest, interested and active than ever since I know that thought is force...
...Goose to these and "six or more" children of her own. This ménage readily lent itself to the tale of The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe. Mother Goose's son-in-law, one T. Fleet, a printer, wrote down the songs he heard her sing, and in 1719 published a book from his own press entitled Songs for the Nursery or Mother Goose's Melodies for Children. *Catharine Smiley Cheatham, of Manhattan, is an interpretative singer a Christian Scientist...
...novel program has been arranged for this afternoon's performance. The new vocal unit will sing several selections and there will be a piano duet by J. L. Keleher '27 and Donald Frothingham '27. George B. Moynahan '26 will give a saxophone specialty, and an exhibition of clog dancing, as another feature of the performance...