Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first flecks of dawn came up over the low hills around Beirut one morning last week, a swarthy, bullet-headed Armenian trudged with leaden steps over the rough courtyard in front of the High Commissariat Building. Softly he crooned a Turkish song: "I have waited for thee, but thou hast not come." Before a crude, hastily constructed wooden structure, he halted. Above the planking, blackly outlined against the grey dawn, dangled a loose rope. Around the platform stood silent native policemen, Syrian officials. They had gathered to witness the hanging of Mejardich Karayan, the 29-year-old Armenian assassin...
...turned the tables on me," is the song a certain speculator is crooning to himself today, for this one was literally "rassle-daszled" yesterday by a shrewd Yardling...
...program follows: Programme Choruses for Freemasons Mozart Soloist: J. L. Morrisson '38 Student Songs of the XVII Century, from "Studentenschmauss," (1626) Schein Bacchanale, from "La Belle Helene" Offenbach Canon: O du eselhafter Martin Mozart Men of Hariech Welsh Folk Song Harvard Tarantella Randall Thompson (Composed for and dedicated to the Yale Glee Club, 1937) Orpheus With His Lute Parker Bailey (poem by William Shakespeare) Hopei Schupei Czechish Folk Song The Testament Heinrich Marschner (student song of Heidelberg) Yale INTERMISSION Liebeslieder Brahms Choruses from The Yeomen of the Guard Sullivan Soloist: D. P. MacAllester '38 Football Songs Harvard Brave Mother Yale...
...genial person of Song-and-Dance Man Cohan. President Roosevelt admits that "the trouble with this country is that I don't know what the trouble with this country...
...coast to coast. The Lunts put this success down to a variety of good plays. The nation puts it down to the bickering, wrestling, fighting, cooing, unfailingly endearing intimacy of Lunt-Fontanne on-stage relations, their expert charm. The Guild paired them in Arms and the Man, The Goat Song, At Mrs. Beam's, Pygmalion, Juarez and Maximilian. In 1927 they did The Brothers Karamazov, The Second Man, The Doctor's Dilemma together, and in 1928 Actress Fontanne opened Strange Interlude on Broadway and Actor Lunt played Marco Millions and Volpone. Since then they have not been separated...