Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voters of Kentucky, of course, disdained all swill trough promises. They rose even above personalities, in which the grinning, song-singing, slaphappy, 40-year-old Governor had a distinct edge over the slow-footed, slow-witted, 60-year-old drayhorse Senator. While "Happy" Chandler sang There's a Gold Mine in the Sky, voters remembered the plea of Franklin Roosevelt, author of all their benefits, to send back to the Senate his dear, distinguished colleague Mr. Barkley...
Died. Jack Judge, 60, onetime fishmonger and vaudeville trouper, author of It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary, best-known marching song of the World War; of meningitis; in Birmingham, England. On New Year's Day 1912, Judge bet a friend he could write a song before nightfall, sing it successfully and publicly that evening. He won with Tipperary...
Immediately after getting into the State Senate, he began campaigning for Lieutenant Governor. Theme song: Sonny Boy. At the 1931 State convention, he was nominated despite potent opposition by obtaining a last-minute switch of the Louisville delegation. His campaign for Governor began as soon as he started presiding over the Senate. Whenever Governor Ruby Laffoon left the State, Lieutenant Governor Happy played Governor. Among other smart tricks, he made Jim Farley and the late Louis Howe honorary colonels...
...people in the crowd, calls oldsters "Dad" and "Mom," old Negroes "Uncle." His sound truck plays him into the towns with Happy Days Are Here Again and he opens meetings by singing My Old Kentucky Home, is ever ready to oblige with Sonny Boy, Mother Machree or any other song the crowd calls for. Riding between towns he talks incessantly and watches for white horses, which he considers lucky. For each one he sees he licks his thumb and stamps it into the palm of his hand...
...Little Miss Broadway, Shirley is a high-spirited orphan always on the point of breaking into a tap routine or a Walter Bullock-Harold Spina song. She is adopted by a lackadaisical Broadway character (Edward Ellis), who runs a seedy hotel for vaudeville actors. After a while, the exuberance of Jimmy Durante and his five-man orchestra get on the nerves of the lady next door (Edna May Oliver). She owns the hotel, but when she tries to evict the vaudevillians she runs up against Shirley. Shirley captivates the old lady by singing Swing Me an Old Fashioned Song...