Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beck thought the Wobblies were crazy. He considered them dynamite-loving, song-singing romantics who bayed for the class struggle, but never seemed to know where they were going. But employers who had pistol-whipped Wobblies out of town had no more charitable reaction to more sensible union men with sensible ideas. In the hard world of labor organization there was no substitute for power and little power without violence...
Though fiery-tempered old Leonor drove many a military wolf away from her girls, she never had to bother about a taciturn sergeant named Antonio del Rioarmenta. He was in love with young Adelita, but he was too shy to tell anyone about it. Instead he wrote a song for her, working out the tune on his harmonica. In the hospital train at Aguascalientes one day, he sang...
...Symbol. By an ironic twist, the sergeant's song became the favorite of Pancho Villa's men, not of Carranza's army, where it was born. For years, a guitar-strumming mariachi had only to play Adelita in the company of a Carrancista to get his guitar strings shot off. Carranza won the war, but Adelita has long since won the battle of the mariachi bands. Today, when a group of paunchy old boys gather in a cantina for an evening-Indians who robbed with Zapata, green-eyed Chihuahuans who followed Felipe Angeles, tall-talking Sonorans...
Russell believes he fell under these terms on the evening of October 19 at 8:45 p.m. While listening to Allen, he was phoned by WHBS and asked to identify a song being played on that station. A correct answer would have brought him a 1948 Ford...
...show will plug the Harvard Band's concert performance, "Drumbeats and song," and will include two songs by the "Riffs" and eight short numbers by the Krocodiloes...