Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WEDDING SONG-David Burnham-Vi-king ($2.50). If Ernest Hemingway should read this book he would be less flattered than embarrassed. Apparently with no intent of parodying his master's manner, Author Burnham has succeeded all too well. Though doubtless meant to hoist the standard higher, Wedding Song blows the gaff on the whole Spartan-boy-&-fox school of understatement. Kit has never forgiven his father, U. S. Tycoon Abbott, for his mother's death, for not accepting his own War bride until it was too late. His whole life is vowed to revenge. From Venice, where...
...South he wrote most about, was the home of Stephen Foster. Author Howard traces his love for Negro music to a "bound" black girl in the Foster household who used to take him to shouting colored meetings, to the early minstrel shows for which Foster wrote many of his songs. Edwin P. Christy, famed Mr. Bones, was his steadiest customer. He paid Foster $10.00 for the privilege of first singing "Oh! Susanna" which became the marching song for the California gold rush, $15.00 for "Old Folks at Home" because Foster let him sign himself as composer. "Old Folks at Home...
GERMAN SING-SONG: Lowell Roof, located in a delightful spot overlooking Mt. Auburn Street and the bright lights of Manter Hall. Gets rather raucous as the night waxes on. Good place to take a Radcliffe Girl, better than the Germanic Museum. If you can play a carrillon they will supply...
Judge Davis found several discrepancies in George's testimony. George said that he sang the song two weeks after the wreck in the home of Minnie McNeeley who had a new organ. Minnie McNeeley did not get her organ until 1907, four years later...
...have no desire to set ourselves up as a modern Mrs. Grundy we cannot refrain from protesting against the weird noises which sometimes emanate from the throats of Technology undergraduates. It is the custom for certain of the more musically inclined to whistle or even lift their voices in song (to be polite) whenever they leave a class. Perhaps it is a song of rejoicing or merely an expression of well being but in any case the result is apt to be distressing to anyone unfortunate enough to be within earshot...