Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stand for a whole hour in which nothing could be heard but the frantic cheers of Austrians for the ruler of Germany. Vienna police, either anxious for their own skins or under secret orders from absent Chancellor Schuschnigg, not only permitted Nazis to roar their forbidden Horst Wessel song but let them slug and beat up Socialists, Communists and Jews. Four plug-uglies wearing Nazi white socks dumped a blood-bespattered youth in front of some policemen, mockingly declared : "Here's a Red for you who's been shouting against Hitler...
Apparently Icelanders were country bumpkins to sophisticated medieval Norwegians. Without realizing what he was doing, Ljot allied himself with old Gunnar's enemies, could not visit his sweetheart at Vadin. They poisoned his mind against her. until in the shameful abandon of defeat he made up a song slandering her. Vigdis had been willing to marry him until she heard" it. When she agreed to a last meeting, turned Ljot away forever, he raped her and fled. She bore his child. Gunnar's enemies taunted him with his disgrace, killed him and burned his house...
...regularity of the seasons, have one point in common. All are minutely tailored to suit her requirements. In this procedure, the weak point is that Shirley Temple's requirements have now outgrown the ingenuity of her purveyors. Her current summer issue, in doing justice to the Temple torch song and tap dance, neglects the Temple talent for emotional acting...
...miles by Ford, bicycle, canoe, litter and on foot, Missionary Rodeheaver played hymns and spirituals on his battered trombone, often starting alone in a clearing and eventually attracting 1,000 or so black heathens. Sending word of his imminence by their signal drums, the Negroes called him "White Song Man," dubbed Bishop Moore "Biscuit" or "Wangi Bischoff" (Yankee bishop). For the trombone they could think of no descriptive word. A practiced sleight-of-hand artist who claims he once could do with one hand a flag trick which Magician Howard Thurston needed two to perform, Song Man Rodeheaver performed legerdemain...
Trombonist Rodeheaver said the natives liked his song, The Brewer's Big Bosses Can't Run Over Me, and "they're learning the meaning as well as the rhythm of "If Your Heart Keeps Right." Related he: "I step up in the dark of the moon in a strange village. I got no guides, no gun bearers, except my little old trombone of the Lord. I slip into Walk in Jerusalem Just Like John, slow at first and then faster . . . and before long, without my asking 'Will you abide with me or sing with...