Word: songs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was about to speak and officially open the national campaign. When it seemed that beloved Stanley Baldwin was going to be just a bit late, as usual, the Conference vented high spirits by singing to an old, rollicking tune a new and most significant campaign song...
...Flappers" & "Reds." The song sums up in a few catchy and atrocious rhymes the nub of what Stanley Baldwin had to say when he finally arose and spoke. The line about "ladies" having "along with men an equal vote" refers to the chief accomplishment of the Baldwin Cabinet, namely enfranchisement of 5,000,000 young British women by the passage of the famed Equal Franchise ("Votes for Flappers") Bill (TIME, Aug. 13 et ante...
...others wondered whether the Freshmen were always allowed to sleep at will, whether Sophomores did not often disturb. Was there not, they asked, an old fraternity song which told about Freshmen who trembling on their couches...
Wake while our song smites...
...SONG OF SONGS-- AH! SWEET MYSTERY OF LIFE -- A new Red Seal number by Richard Crooks. ELINOR...