Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dresser, "as everyone knows," is the author of "On the Banks of the Wabash," immortal theme song of Hoosierdom, and likely to burst forth wherever two or more loyal souls are gathered together in the faith...
Under your discussion Dec. 23 of Theodore Dreiser you say (His song writing brother Paul, author of "The Wabash Blues" still calls himself Dresser...
...there is any unprintable version of ''The Halls of Montezuma"? Let me say to you, to all writers for TIME and to all its readers, that all Marines, rank and file, honor that anthem and hold it in the highest esteem. To them it is not a song to be desecrated by unprintable versions, or in any other way, and any attempt to do so in any Marine Camp would be summarily dealt with. During almost 26 years of service in the Corps, dating in fact from February 16, 1904, I have never heard any version...
...your issue of Dec. 23, under "International," you mention the Marines' Hymn as "From the Halls of Montezuma, a song of many unprintable versions...
...personal friend of Theodore Dreiser permit me to suggest that his brother Paul has been dead for more than fifteen years. (See Twelve Men-"My Brother Paul.") He in collaboration with his brother Theodore wrote our famous State song, "On the Banks of the Wabash" and not "The Wabash Blues." There is a movement on foot in Terre Haute, Ind., to bring the body of Paul Dresser back to Indiana and bury it with honors in a beautiful park beside the Wabash River. ARTHUR H. SAPP...