Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian Ambassador and the Albanian Minister, Franklin Roosevelt and Jack Garner, Tom Dewey and Bob Taft, all sat down for dinner together one night last week in Washington. Such things are possible only at Gridiron Club dinners, where Washington newsmen play host and entertainer to the political great with song & skit...
...yellowish glow lit a dozen show-girl Madonnas, each in a vast brocaded mantle, each in prayerful attitude before a golden sunburst resembling a sacred monstrance. Bearing candles, a procession of choristers in blue-&-white robes of ecclesiastical cut took their stand along the walls, and burst into song. One of the Madonnas, picked out by a spotlight, sang a contralto solo. Then the beautifully trained Rockettes-coiffed like nuns, wearing satiny white habits, carrying bunches of lilies-deployed across the cathedral-like set, lined up finally in the form of a cross. Easter week's ordinary movie-goers...
...hours after they were placed on sale.) As a special treat Stokowski gave them a world premiere: Alexander Gretchaninoff's Fifth Symphony. Then, as one adolescent, the whole audience sang Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott, Schubert's Ave Maria and a brand-new Philadelphia Youth Song to music by Sibelius. Maestro Stokowski called for more jive: "Let the walls rock and the ceiling move up and down," he cried. "I want to see that chandelier agitated by its emotion...
With Spring the college theme song has charged from "Want Some Sea Food, Mama" to "Kim Me Again," as the collegiate mind has turned from goldfish to the more comfortable commodity of kisses...
...Along Without You Very Well (Dick Todd; Bluebird). The Canadian Bing Crosby sings the month's torch song the best...