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Word: songful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general election on the issue of abolishing Federal arbitration of trades union disputes (TIME, Sept. 23). The duty of the state to apply compulsory arbitration is one of the cornerstones of Australia's labor policy. Opposition members rose in Parliament, gleefully shouted "This is your swan song, Bruce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Bruce's Swan Song | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Central Square this week with Dorothy Mackaill and wise-cracking Jack Oakie in the leading roles. This new product of the sound studio does not rise to great heights as far as originality or plot is concerned, but it does show Miss Mackaill that the title of the theme song. "The Things We Want Most Are Hard To Get" contains truth. Jack Oakie contributes his usual share of laughs at the expense of his manikin sister who longs for Park Avenue and has no objection to being picked up if the driver has a handsome car. The photography is unusually...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/16/1929 | See Source »

...Solomon's Song of Songs was deleted in entirety. (It contains the line Many waters cannot quench love-see Theatre p.40). Concerning this deletion there is little debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sunday School Bible | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

George White's Scandals. A decade has passed since Producer White offered the first of his popular saturnalias. Still fired with ambition, he has inserted a song (Continued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Yellow-haired Frances Williams sings the show's best song, Bottoms Up, in her slithering, urgent voice. To this ditty Producer White dances a strenuous routine (successor to his Charleston, Black Bottom). The carnivals of Europe have inspired huge, mechanical grotesques which loom now and then behind the players - a shaggy Beast rolls its head and eyes while Beauty pirouettes; an enormous dummy jazz band swoops and sways. Meanwhile Willie Howard talks Jewish, and the Abbott dancers from Chicago tap dance on their toes. Ousted from the bed of a married woman, a clown exclaims : "Believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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