Word: songful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fashionably devoted to the theme of postwar disillusionment, is called "Faust 1945" and reiterates the tired soldier's discovery that there's no solace for the sterile soul in drink, dames, or solace for the other, a sort of love lyric by the Advocate's new President, is called "Song," and succinctly continues the tradition of conventional obscurity which has become, one is tempted to say, a hallmark of the magazine. This particular poem is written in three four-line stanzas and makes no pretense of intellectual content. Instead, it tries to convey a delicate mood, I think, by means...
...Radcliffe dormitory wins a silver loving cup for a song tonight when the Annex holds its annual singing contest on the steps of Cabet Hall...
Dormitory and commuter groups will join in the competition, writing and singing their own melodies. The winning song will also be printed in the Radcliffe yearbook...
...Virginia audience right where they lived. One woman who had traveled 36 miles from Gauley Bridge to hear the premiere was pleased as punch with the third section, which described the stretch where the upper branches of the Kanawha join forces, roar over Kanawha Falls. "There's a song I've heard every day of my life on the river," said she. "You can hear it right in the music...
...head of the same Pinkerton National Detective Agency which plodded patiently (but unsuccessfully) along in Jesse James's dust for 16 years, decided that he had had enough. The bold bandit who stared grimly out of the agency's secret files was no kin to the song-and-celluloid desperado whom everybody knew. Pinkerton decided to open the files and let the world see what its hero looked like all dressed up in his police record...