Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young ache to play. Someone in the fields takes up a fiddle; a fine gentleman blows the dust from his guitar. A street boy whistles; soldiers sing. All the street is become a gypsy orchestra. It is happy Vienna, Schubert's town, and the streets are filled with his song...
...young ache to play. Someone in the fields takes up a fiddle; a fine gentleman blows the dust from his guitar. A street boy whistles; soldiers sing. All the street is become a gypsy orchestra. It is happy Vienna, Schubert's town, and the streets are filled with his song...
...prologue has ended; a century has passed. It is 1930 in Vienna; but now as of old, when friends gather and men make merry, there is dancing and singing to Schubert's song. Now a new Schubert sits at the open casement. It is Toni Hofer, writing the last measures of an operetta. On the piano, lilting melodies lie in manuscript, but the one crowning air will not come. The play is dead without a dance, a Viennese waltz to give it soul...
This verse was added to the Princeton University "Faculty Song" in the spring of 1905, after Woodrow Wilson had announced his plans for Princeton's famed, pioneering preceptorial system. A year later the Class of 1906 was singing...
...dear sir, you know nothing about Christianity; you will have to learn its A, B and C. I respect you as a gentleman, of course, but as a heathen gentleman." The Virginians were reluctant but they had to hang John Brown. And when they hanged him they started a song that ended...