Word: songs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went to a movie, last night, and cried and cried-with joy. A big red-haired man with such a fine voice came out and sang a song about "Lucky Lindy . . Plucky Lindy . . ." all about "Lucky" Lindbergh, of course. Well, my son used to be called "Lindy," too, at High School, and it all just brought tears of pride to my eyes. For my son has been "Lucky" and "Plucky," too, and now has a fine position. Please print this letter, because there must be many mothers among your thousands of readers whose husbands have such names that their sons...
...evidence that Mr. Sinclair Senior is not a corrupting influence to all young minds. The second argument purports to be from a forthcoming biography of Mr. Sinclair which alludes to him as a Puritan. The third is that most of the quoted bad passages are really from the "Song of Solomon", and anyway Mr. Sinclair feels that the objection to his book is "on political grounds" only. He further shows the courage of his convictions by avowing his intention to read the page chiefly in question on Boston Common censors or no censors...
...Suppose everybody always sang every-where,' I mused, 'in the streets, in the baths, at the workshops.' The idea charmed me and naturally began to convert everyday life into opera, singing the answers to questions asked me and greeting my friends in song...
...Captain Charles Lindbergh flew from New York to Paris, and still the tide of popular laudations is at flood. But praise and honor are becoming adulterated by that morbid interest which the public loves to take in its heroes. The old policy of sentimental advertising is followed: a popular song has appeared in his honor, and Parisian cafes have doubtless added a dash to absinthe to some drink and christened the concoction after the flyer...
...club" in Nogales, Mexico, where, at night, there is dancing, jazz and song, a policeman addressed insulting remarks last week to Señor Rodolfo Calles, 28-year-old son of Mexican President Plutarco Elias Calles...