Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face of 6,000,000 approving signatures, may I subscribe mine as opposed to the Star Spangled Banner as the national anthem? Should not such a song bear the same relation to the nation that the alma mater song bears to the college? Viewed from this angle, could anyone imagine the inclusion in, say, Fair Harvard, of lines and allusions to a dramatic forward pass or touchdown in the Yale game of 1901? In just this way does the Star Spangled Banner, splendidly patriotic though it be, but manifestly a battle song, commemorate a specific event in a specific...
Citizen Coolidge ate ham and eggs next morning with 2,000 at the Los Angeles Breakfast Club. When the Duncan sisters sang a song which ended...
Next the Coolidges went out to Hollywood. At the Warner Brothers Studio Viennese Nights was being filmed. As they entered upon a beer garden set, a chorus of 200 men and women about the tables rose to greet them with a tremendous song With Will Hays, Mary Pickford Fairbanks and Jack Warner, they took seats on a dais to watch the "shooting" of several scenes. Mrs. Coolidge laughed as Louise Fazenda made love to Bert Roach across a beer table. Mr. Coolidge did not laugh. The visitors were then shown a "playback" of the scenes just taken in a nearby...
Ordinarily a crack British freight line sells the old ships it is ready to discard to Lithuanians or Albanians et al.; but The Commercial pertinently recalls that several such old tubs have recently been broken up and sold for a song as junk, the owners preferring not to get a good price for them as ships for fear they would crop up in competition later, much as sellers of new automobiles look on "used cars" as a menace to their business...
...know I've been a rambler, "I know I've done you wrong, "But don't forget me, darling, "Whenever you sing this song...