Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Latin, stated last night that the form "Harvardianus-a-um" was the approved Latin equivalent of the adjective "Harvard." But the plaque uses the third declension adjective in the inscription, thus: "Universitas Harvardiensis." "Harvardiana" is used on the Harvard seal and as the title of the famous Crimson football song...
...marred on the première by the brandied roarings of a number of Mr. Astaire's fashionable friends, Gay Divorce nevertheless provides a generous measure of polite entertainment. Luella Gear, cast as Actress Luce's guide, philosopher and friend, is dryly humorous, sings one funny song about a "brave young American girl of 37" who proclaims herself "true to the Red. White & Blue" at a Communist gathering, another about an unfortunate family of Fitches. Eric Blore plays an amusing barman...
Bennett's clients are aware that his smart variations, his rich counterpoint, will do wonders for the simplest song, but until lately none of them bothered to put his name on the program. They changed their ways when serious musicians started praising his talent. The fact that Bennett can sit down at a drawing board, turn out 80 pages of orchestration a day while his wife reads to him or plays the radio, will seem less significant to laymen than a list of the current shows he has had a hand in. He prepared most of the scores...
...Jubilo is looking for. After trying to milk a cow by putting a pail under it and saying "Go on!", straightening out romantic difficulties for his own daughter (Marion Nixon) without telling her who he is, Jubilo loiters away from the household of Judge Hardy, singing a Jubilo song...
...Hard-headed soldier, he defined military fame: "To be killed on the field of battle and have our names spelled wrong in the newspapers." Like his good friend Ulysses Simpson Grant a failure in civil life. William Tecumseh Sherman thrived on civil war. Like the old soldier in the song, he "simply faded away" (it took him 25 years) into the most sought-after speaker and diner-out of his generation...