Word: songful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in La Paix tavern, happy couples danced away the night to U.S. song hits while Mrs. van der Straeten served cocktails and gazed anxiously northward. Far out over the North Sea her husband sat patiently on the edge of his basket, his feet dangling over the waves that lapped ten yards below, "so that if I should go into the water, I would not be entangled in the gear." The moon was full by then and "traveling swiftly on the very edge of the waves," Joseph recalled. "It was like a fairy tale." As the waves came even closer...
Paraphrase the Weather. In The Primitive, the author is betrayed by his subject. Feikema wrote in his earlier books of the natural elements, and Nature was adequate to absorb his emotions and his song. He was always likable and often convincing when he described the earth and sky and the changing seasons or paraphrased the weather report out in Sioux-land. When he writes of the intellectual life of Christian College, he is seldom as likable and never convincing. At best, he doggedly describes freshman themes, the lectures and the changing curricula. At worst, he peevishly rehearses "the arid...
...Best song of all time: Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust...
...swing and sometimes bebop in the clubhouse when they are in St. Louis. It is the successor of an old hand-winding Gramophone that Doc Weaver brought into the clubhouse 22 years ago. The music box helped them win the 1942 pennant, with Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy the theme song. In 1946, in another hot pennant race, Doc Weaver scoured record shops until he found another record of Mirandy-and the Cardinals kept it spinning while they tied Brooklyn for the pennant, beat them in a playoff and won the World Series...
This season, the Cardinals haven't gotten together on one song. Freckle-faced Infielder Red Schoendienst, Musial's roommate and constant companion, is soothed by Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life and Indian Love Call. Musial is a boogie-woogie bug. Pitcher Pollet likes Brahms and Beethoven, never hears either in the clubhouse. North Carolina-born Pitcher...