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Word: songed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Negeb area. This possibility is considered even more fantastic because the Negeb, Israel's southern desert, has become a burning symbol of Israeli nationalism. Said a Lausanne observer last week: "Three Jews in Tel Aviv can't get together for a drink without singing the Song of the Negeb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: No Talk, No Peace | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Sallow-cheeked Agustin Lara is the most artful fashioner of the libido-loaded lyrics of Mexico's popular songs. He is also Mexico's most prolific popular composer. Since his first success with Mujer (1927), a song dedicated to all women, Lara has averaged 15 songs a year, most of them hits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Incident at the Capri | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...chorus girl named Clara Martínez, still worships María. Last week, while he was playing and singing at Mexico City's Capri nightclub, Diego and Frida Rivera entered with María Félix, were ushered to a ringside table. Lara stopped the song he was singing, switched to Palabras de Mujer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Incident at the Capri | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...bill to designate the Missouri Waltz an official state song was killed by the Missouri senate after opponents had described it as a "low-rate, second-class barroom ballad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jun. 20, 1949 | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...This song, Rendezvous, is for fickle Maria who made a desperate lover wait two hours the other night . . ." "This samba is for redhaired, snub-nosed Sabina, who lives by the watermill . . ." "This record is for cross-eyed Albert so that, listening, he will have to stop his evil gossiping for at least four minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: In Flanders Fields | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

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