Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lady Doverdale, middle-aged U.S. widow of a British title, sat at one of the white banquettes. With her was middle-aged Socialite Mary Hoyt Wiborg. When they heard the song, they hissed. Between hisses, they cried "No!" "Nazi!" "Don't sing that song!" "I won't have it!" Singer Scott, pretending she heard nothing untoward, kept on singing. The two protestant ladies up and marched...
...Song for the Doomed. Shortly before noon the guards herded the few remaining able-bodied prisoners into the barracks of the weak and ill, saying that a noon meal would be served there. Two hundred and ninety-five men were crowded into that barracks-40 ft. by 120 ft.-jammed in and the doors locked after big tubs of soup had been brought...
Jennifer Jones, Oscar-winning cinemactress, who postponed a divorce for 2½ years because of urgent studio warnings that it might sully her spotless buildup for The Song of Bernadette, finally filed suit in Los Angeles against Cinemactor Robert Walker...
Oscar Hammerstein II could pretty nearly justify his title of No. 1 U.S. librettist just by pointing to the two best-loved of all modern musicals-Show Boat and Oklahoma! But he has also written the libretto or lyrics (or both) for such hits as Rose Marie, The Desert Song, The New Moon, Carmen Jones; his are the words of 01' Man River, Lover Come Back to Me, Stout-Hearted, Men, Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' and-the only song he ever wrote for himself and not for a show-The Last Time I Saw Paris...
...Better be a coward five minutes than a dead man all your life," runs the old song, Slattery's Mounted Foot. "Better a few weeks ill than all your life dead," runs the heading of a German propaganda leaflet recently dropped on British soldiers in Italy. The text, as reprinted in the British Lancet, tells how to get out of fighting by faking illness...