Word: songful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Radcliffe, a Kobe College Committee was appointed annually to make the sister-college contacts, and a "Cherry Blossom Song" in honor of the relationship was written. Annual gifts, sent to Kobe from Radcliffe's Community Chest, built up the "Radcliffe Room." An additional gift came from an Idler production of Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man," which netted...
...Lorelei Song. The Big Four had agreed to meet in Paris May 23 to consider "questions relating to Germany and the problems arising out of the situation in Berlin, including also questions of currency in Berlin." What lay behind this bland clause was clear. Russia wanted control of Germany. Having failed to get it through the Berlin blockade, Russia would try again, with different tactics, at the Paris conference...
...seek its end. The first is to press for a four-power control setup with a Russian veto over German affairs (including the Ruhr). The second, and far more effective way, is to win German sympathies and establish conditions favorable to Communism. The Russians can warble a Lorelei song to woo German nationalism, as they have consistently done since war's end, by passing themselves off as champions of German unity...
...young drugstore clerk strolled into a vaudeville theater on Manhattan's Bowery to while away the time. As far as the direction of his own life was concerned, he had picked a good day. In addition to the song & dance acts, there was an added attraction-motion pictures of ocean waves. It was Joseph M. Schenck's first movie, and he could hardly believe his eyes. Said Joe: "Somebody will make a million dollars...
...first of the Club's annual series of Yard Concerts. The air was raw; more people than usual remained standing, wandering about the grass in an effort to keep warm. But the men on the steps of Widener held the attentions of all for a half-hour of informal song...