Word: songful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Michigan, like most colleges, has a song which it sings in victory or defeat...
Then they wheeled in the cake, a six-foot copy of a movie camera. Broadway's Betty Garrett (Mrs. Larry Parks) led the song composed for the occasion...
Both in & out of jail, Blanco has endeared himself to his people with his songs and coplas-short four-line verses on popular themes. A Caraqueño recalls: "Late one night about five years ago, we were sitting in a beer garden, drinking and listening to an urchin singing. A man wandered in from the street and sat down with us. For the urchin's song, he improvised a copla, and the boy tried to make one up, too. Then the man improvised verse after verse for an hour-about each of us, about the beer garden, about...
...Such romantic dialogue as: "Listen, darling, they're playing our song"; "Violets ! Oh darling, you remembered"; "Oh, Keith, darling, look! The stars are so close you could reach out and stir them around"; "Oooh! The bubbles tickle my nose...
...Iturbi (played, with superb assurance, by Jose Iturbi). Jeanette's three little girls (Jane Powell, Ann E. Todd, Mary Eleanor Donohue), who still idealize their father, oppose the marriage. Everybody is fairly stupid about trying to resolve the trouble, but everybody means awfully well. Also, everybody bursts into song or sits down at the piano with little or no provocation...