Word: songs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wife, who was surrounded by a merry group of girls from the University of Vermont, the First Lady's Alma Mater. "Hello, Sally," she said. "Why, Mary, is this your boy?" All then, including Mrs. Coolidge, joined in a hearty rendition of "Champlain," the U. of V. college song, after which rustic Attorney General Sargent joined the party...
...Having swum the Conway they sang no better and no worse than before. Prince Maelgwn Gwynedd of North Wales, thereupon welcomed the singers to the first recorded Welsh Eisteddfod, heaped their palms with gold, banished his harpers, proclaimed the confirmation through "trial by water" of his pet theory: that song is superior to instrumental music. Since then the Eisteddfod (literally "session," actually "contest") of Welsh bards has become a yearly recurrent cultural diversion...
...first great Eisteddfod was held in the sixth century to prove the superiority of vocal song over instrumental music. By annual repetitions it has developed into a national bardic congress with many contests, prizes, poetic addresses, trumpets, elaborate ceremonies...
...three bad elderly ladies foregather for the weekend. AT MRS. BEAM'S-An English invention in which Bluebeard in modern clothes invades a stodgy boarding house. WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS-Helen Hayes and a crisp troupe redealing one of J. M. Barrie's winning hands. MUSICAL The song and dance situation should first be investigated via Sunny, Ziegfeld Revue, Passions of 1926 (formerly The Merry World), The Vagabond King, Scandals, Americana, lolanthe...
...novelists on record who can spatter their pages with italicized words-jellabias, bassourabs, girbas, tohs, fil-fil, mehara, hareem, Bismillah!-without seeming unduly affected. His dialogs crackle, his humor sparkles. He lets Mary Van- brugh mock his hero throughout with snatches from the song of Abdul, the Bulbul Emir. He introduces Mary's Cockney maid, Maudie, to ridicule "sheik fiction" of the E. M. Hull type...