Word: songs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into a thunderstorm of welcome. A huge banner billowed out the words "Envoy of Peace and Good Will from Coolidge." An excited restauranteur sprinkled champagne in the street over which he was to pass. National Holiday was declared. Speeches. Eight hundred native school children held a "sing song" for him in front of the U. S. Legation. He made one of his shortest speeches: "I thank you for the reception accorded me." No references were made in the adjectivally enthusiastic press to the recent fatal fighting between natives and U. S. Marines...
Forty preachers who were visiting the Manhattan headquarters of the International Workers of the World, on an industrial seminar arranged by the social relations department of the Congregational Church, read this song in the I.W.W. hymn book and smiled. Owing to the politeness of I.W.W. members they were not called upon to sing it; they joined, instead in carolling another I.W.W. hymn of which the words were less derisive...
Martinelli (as the prophet whose fanatical followers crown him a Dutch Rex in 16th Century Holland) put aside his tendency to blustery winds of song and wrung his effects from masterful restraint. Amid settings by Joseph Urban the "Ice Ballet" was realistically skated without ice, the castle was dynamited without dynamite, and the penultimate coronation scene achieved a splendor eclipsed only by such scenic orgies as the Metropolitan's Turandot...
...stage for the first time when she was 4 years old at a salary of $10 weekly. Now she has $8000 a week, a police-dog, a canary, a gluttonous appetite for licorice candy, and a reputation for frail, goldenhaired beauty that has suggested, in a recent popular song, this recipe for exceptional loveliness: "Put Cleopatra into a dish, add a dash of Lillian Gish...
Commenting on trying Berlin. Gershwin declared that the popular song writer could not even read music Now at the age of 39 he is planning to study music "I told him to do that ten years ago," Gershwin said. "All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique...