Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reich existed, and the words were unquestionably an appeal to the Germanic peoples to place "[united] Germany above all [other ideals], above all in the World!" After Bismarck achieved the ideal of unity by creating the German Empire, many of the Kaiser's subjects sang the old song in the sense of "Germany, Germany above all [other lands], above all in the World!" Some German pacifists object as strongly to Deutschland, Deutschland iiber Alles as do U. S. pacifists to "the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting...
First of all, there is a capable chorus, the "gentlemen of Japan," forthright in song, mincing in pantomime, hair-trigger with the fan. Then there are three most excellent characterizations: the Lord High Executioner, the Lord High Everything Else, and the Mikado. Mr. William Danforth, as the Mikado, is a player most perfectly in the Gilbertian tradition. His devastating Oriental grin stretches permanently from ear to ear; he rocks with noiseless merriment as Ko-Ko tells of the deadly snickersnee; he recites the list of hand-tailored punishments aimiably through his teeth, till suddenly his blood-curdling laugh, like Mephistopheles...
...such a breeze with his furious fanning that he all but blows himself into the wings. He takes frequent encores by singing the most irreverent variations on the text, translating "The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring, Tra-La" into every dialect but the Scandinavian. He expands the patter-song "I've Got a Little List" to include the more recent nuisances. Even in Gilbert's day this song was progressively altered to include the passing parade of follies, such as the "scorching bicyclist" and the "lovely suffragist; so that for his inclusion of the "megaphonic crooner" and the "prohibitionist...
...Last spring President Hoover asked Crooner Rudy Vallée for a "good song." Last month Poet Christopher Morley revealed that what the President thought the country needed was a "great poem." Last week President Hoover had sent greetings to oldtime Funnymen Weber & Fields on their Golden Jubilee, telling them that what the country needed was "a resoundingly good new joke." ¶Roscoe Conkling Simmons. Chicago Negro who seconded the Hoover renomination in June, led to the White House 150 representatives of the "Republican Joint National Planning Committee to Get out the Negro Vote," spread them out on the south...
...people who have worn out their old sheet music George Gershwin's Songbook was published last week in heavy, expensive binding.* Each song has been given a smart, syncopated drawing by Constantin Alajalov, a fancy piano transcription by the composer...