Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prettier to watch for being alone, quickly caught up with the field and passed most of it. After going through all their paces, Wing Commander and two others were selected to remain in the center of the ring. The order of finish: i) Wing Commander, 2) Sam McGee, 3) Song of India...
Actually, Tsiang's appeal sounded like Nationalist China's swan song: London, Paris and Washington would probably soon follow Moscow's lead in recognizing the Chinese Red regime. This week, U.S. delegate Ambassador Philip Jessup sidestepped China's cry for judgment. In a vague, high-sounding alternative resolution, Jessup proposed that U.N. members pledge themselves not to interfere in China's domestic affairs, nor seek special privileges or spheres of influence...
...their titles, at least, most of the 220 new works in the 1949 output were clearly in tune. Dmitri Shostakovich, who once showed signs of becoming a great composer, had turned in a new oratorio, The Song of the Forests. It glorified Stalin's reforestation plan. Sample verse (by Poet Evgeny Dolmatovsky...
Before the session was over, the union would hear a new song, Glory to the Great Stalin, and an opera about the reconstruction of a collective farm...
Adam's Rib is acted as though the players found it funny, but actually, like many "sophisticated" movie comedies, it is more absurd than comical. Its chief asset: a high-toned song called Farewell, Amanda, with dismal lyrics which Cole Porter must have written while waiting...