Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able, And on the seventh-holystone the decks and scrape the cable. -Richard Henry Dana Celebrated in song and story of the English-speaking navies and merchant marine is the holystone, a porous slab of sandstone used as an abrasive for keeping wooden decks snow-white.* In the U. S. Navy the holystone has been used since the Government first built ships. Formerly applied by seamen on hands and knees, holystoning is now performed with long-handled implements, mopwise. Nevertheless, there were always corners where the holystone had to be applied...
...jump into the Danube, was restrained by friends. His partner, Dr. Ludwig Schiiller, brother of the Austrian economist who negotiates most of Austria's trade treaties, went out and, unrestrained, shot himself beside the Danube. His body toppled in, was swept away by the famed waters, blue in song, dirty in fact. In seven days the Danube carried Dr. Schiiller's body out of Austria, through a portion of Hungary and into Czechoslovakia where it was fished out at Komorn, 99 miles from Vienna...
...Quadrangle, the Glen Club will be more fittingly clad in the eloistored hue of Harvard's more usual garb. They will, too, bring melody where only the harsh clanging of dissonant bells has been before. More than that, their presence in the House Plan tonight suggests an idea. Community song-fests there have been. Rival House tennis, squash, crew, football and basketball teams there are. Were the two combined many a life would be lightened if one evening a year could be devoted to listening and judging a combat de resistance between the truncated Glee Clubs of the seven Houses...
...Facing death became such a commonplace that it meant little or nothing and often was approached with a fearless joy for the struggle. Picture the author, confronted at night by two gleaming eyes a few yards down the jungle path, and at a loss what to do, breaking into song and seeing the eyes disappear. Song proved to be a boon to the little band of explorers because at another time it saved in all probability the lives of all of them. After being followed for two days by a murderous band of nearly 200 Indians, they were being attacked...
...Chicago last week Judge Philip L. Sullivan made a decision which favored neither Claimant McKay nor Claimant Zimmerman. Judge Sullivan decided that the song originated with Jesse Brown, a Chicago lawyer, who argued that he wrote it ten years ago while an undergraduate orchestra leader at Northwestern University. The court ordered Vallee to give Lawyer Brown an accounting of his "Vagabond" royalties...