Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leader Lansbury, when booed at a dockside meeting which seemed to want to sing "The Internationale," tried to restore order by joining in the song, managed to lead it and figured that afterward he would get a chance to speak. Instead he was booed out of the hall...
...sing a song, dance a bit or write a book, keep your feet on the ground. Too many of us in the ministry talk over our audiences." That was Dr. Joseph Fort Newton's thought when, three weeks ago, he began to syndicate a daily 500-word religious talk called "Everyday Religion," first feature of note since Rev. Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman went into pious colyumny. Famed liberal preacher, now co-rector of St. James's Protestant Episcopal Church in downtown Philadelphia, Dr. Newton had been solicited by General Manager Monte Bourjaily of United Feature Syndicate...
...Joaquin Valley. Said he to the onion farmer: "I'm going to take these sacks of onions to Washington, eat 'em every day and blow my breath all over the Senators until they pass laws to allow the growers to make money." Nominee McAdoo's theme song: "Send me to Washington. I'll guarantee I won't need someone to show me the ropes." Nominee Tubbs took a soap box away from a critical orator, harangued a street crowd on the virtues of his own public record...
...introduction of celebrity-guests at the opening of the supper club in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel. In a pause between phrases of "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia," a coin clattered at her feet, flipped by a sot. Mary Lewis stooped, picked up the coin, finished her song amid tremendous applause...
...prepared to hear Heaven-storming, epoch-making music last week. Carpenter kept his emotions well hidden even when describing the death of the poor, ugly dwarf in The Birthday of the Infanta. Reticence marked his Song of Faith, played widely last winter in celebration of the Washington Bi-Centennial. The ballet Skyscrapers, proved, too, that Carpenter's expert craftsmanship serves him best in light, colorful music, unburdened by big ideas. But Patterns, with its sentimental waltz bit, its brief Spanish interlude, its sketchy piano embroidery, was almost anemic, its reception by critics and audience cool...