Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...itself, then riding at meridian over India. Its noonday rays impinged upon a photoelectric cell in Bombay, closing electric circuits by radio to start the carillon in the Tower of the Sun (400 ft., the fair's tallest). The carillon thereupon chimed out the fair's theme song, "The Bells of Treasure Island." Simultaneously on went the floodlights illuminating the Pageant of the Pacific, the Western Wonderland, the $50,000,000 Golden Gate International Exposition...
...song hit of Leave It to Me! is My Heart Belongs to Daddy. In a new Persian skit added to Noel Coward's Set to Music, Beatrice Lillie blacks out with: "My heart belongs to Bagdaddy...
...Little Foxes (by Lillian Hellman; produced by Herman Shumlin) is the season's most tense and biting drama-as tense and biting as was Playwright Hellman's The Children's Hour. From the Song of Solomon comes the title: "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines. . . ." Study of a rapacious Southern family on the make at the turn of the century, The Little Foxes catches the Hubbards-who by sharp bargaining and hard ways have achieved small-town prosperity-on the point of becoming heel-grinding, big-time industrialists...
...forwards are concerned on the Freshmen team, it's really sing a song of six-pence, because the Yardlings are better fortified at that position than at any other. Joe Romano and Mike Rice form one forward duo, and Johnny Rigby teams with Will Webber on the other. These four men have divided the forward work almost exclusively among themselves...
...King and Queen are good for many a laugh. When he complains of his duties, she retorts: "All right, be huffy and abdicate." Thereupon he goes into a song called I'm King Useless the Useless. When the Queen bids him bring about cooperation, "as you did in Paris," the King replies: "Oh, so that's what I did at Paris...