Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Correspondents' dinner consisted of a burlesque news reel, showing the President as a "Doctor of Doctrines" singing a song to monopolistic big business interests, cracking a whip over Congress, and greeting small businessmen. The high point was a tableau exhibiting the discovery of the tooth which the President had extracted last autumn strung on the watch chain of a visiting Elk. The entertainment also included a glimpse of Vice President Garner shooting a cow instead of a deer...
...Ward Price!" since this British journalist is pro-Nazi and works for Lord Rothermere who is always received by Hitler when in Berlin. A schoolmaster of Hitler's boyhood, now nearly 80, had come tottering to see his pupil, the Führer, enter Linz, and a rollicking song rose with the chorus: "Today Germany is ours! Tomorrow the whole World...
Last week Dr. Teachenor exposed the nerve tracts, determined which ones were injured, crushed them. After the operation blood transfusions were given and the girl was placed in a respirator. When she regained consciousness, she cheerfully asked her nurse to sing a song. Not for .some time can it be known whether her paralysis will be cured. The surgeon, however, found "a favorable indication of successful recovery...
...Gaiety Girls (Alexander Korda) is a fresh-as-a-daisy English musical. It has sparkling lines, a logical story and a great show of versatility by England's gay, lantern-jawed Jack Hulbert, who is a good song-&-dance man, a better actor. Opposite him, blonde, healthy-looking Patricia Ellis has a better role than Hollywood ever gave her, does better than she ever did in Hollywood...
Some people think that ragtime started with Irving Berlin's Alexander's Ragtime Band. Others, better informed, know that when Berlin's song appeared (1911) ragtime had long since passed its peak...