Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gettysburg where he drove through cheering crowds to the battlefield. As the President ascended the platform there he was greeted by a white-haired lady of 85. Mrs. M. O. Smith, who as a girl, 71 years before, had stood on a similar platform, had sung a song to a great gathering, had heard Abraham Lincoln begin: "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers. . . " Last week Mrs. Smith did not sing. President Roosevelt, addressing a crowd of 50,000, declared: "Here, in the presence of the spirits of those who fell on this ground, we give renewed assurance that...
Included in Workers' Song Book 1934 is "God To The Hungry Child." The words: Slowly and Freely Hungry child, I did not make this world for you, You didn't buy any stock in my railroad, You did not invest in my corporation...
Capitalists rarely take to the streets to sing songs about their economic credo. Communists and "workers," however, do, noisily, belligerently. A rousing mass song, they have learned, is worth a dozen speeches. And with the growing strength of workers' parties many a new song has been written, rehearsed wherever workers get together. Lately the first U. S. Worker's Song Book was released.* Two of the latest Communist hits...
...stage show in like all Metropolitan stage shows with an elaborate and over-Iengthy ballet and song business, followed by Fabien Sevitsky and his merry men, booming away in "Scheherazade...
...Busker-stage slang for a hireling who echoes a stage song from the gallery...