Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, at the University of Virginia, where most of them have gone, a famed, hearty family of U.S. churchmen is immortalized in a drinking song. During the past 100 years, nine of the Kinsolvings of Virginia have become Protestant Episcopal clergymen. Last week the family could boast its third bishop: the Rt. Rev. Arthur Barksdale ("Big Tui") Kinsolving II, 50, new bishop of Arizona...
...straighten you out on the Ladies Doverdale. In TIME [May 7] you have a photograph of Audrey, wife of Baron Doverdale. But the story accompanying the picture is an account of the vigorous dissent of Leslie, Lady Doverdale to the rendering of the song, Lili Marlene, in her presence at a Manhattan hotel. The Dowager Lady Doverdale (Leslie) is the stepmother-in-law of Lady Doverdale (Audrey), who, as a matter of fact, has been in England throughout the war in charge of the records section of the R.A.F. Comforts Committee at the Air Ministry...
...think it is time someone sang a song of praise for Eleanor Roosevelt. In few of the laudatory articles about our late President does she receive any credit for her great part in making his public career as truly remarkable...
...never heard a song upon the lips of my mother. I never even heard her hum a tune. . . . She was a confusing mixture of sternness, gentleness, and strength of will and purpose. She had borne twelve children, and had buried three of them. When the harvest required it, she had taken her place in the field. She had planted and tended the vegetable garden. She had spun the cloth, and had made the clothes which my father, my sisters . . . and I wore...
Without the interruption of an impish, hillbilly doggerel song (Round and Round Hitler's Grave) Triumph's unrelieved pounding at its worthy message (internationalism) sometimes takes on the sound of an hour-long lecture; and occasionally, with the best intentions in the world, it is mawkishly patronizing about the little people to whom it is addressed. Yet the best of Corwin is a kind of poetry, and is U.S. radio at its best...