Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wetherbine" & "Clementine." Happy's technique varied only slightly as he stumped from town to fish fry to camp meeting. Generally, he was preceded by a sound truck, blaring songs and the repeated injunction: "Be like your pappy and vote for Happy." By the time 'the audience's feet were tapping out the rhythms, the candidate himself rolled up in a big black car, grinning and waving, pumping outthrust hands. After his speech -always approximately the same ("It's won for me-why should I change?")-Happy rang down the curtain with a song, usually There...
...fingers of his left hand were still stiff, but, said he: "I can curl them around a bat handle, and that's what counts." At a gathering of baseball writers not long ago, the grand ballroom of New York's Waldorf-Astotfia resounded with a special song in his honor (to the tune of O Sole...
...rustle up some traditions of its own. The heraldic division of the U.S. Air Force was working on an emblem, and the academy's Athletic Association had temporarily adopted the eagle as a mascot. So far, no one had thought up a cheer, no one had composed a song. But some progress had been made with the lingo...
...Queen of Sheba's Nightmare is a worldly-wise little story in which the Queen is persuaded by Satan that the rapturous "Song" that King Solomon has just sung to her is the same one he has sung to every other woman. This fable of woman's mingled love and suspicion of flattery makes one wish that Author Russell's artistic powers were up to the standard of his intelligence. The moral (for ladies only): Better be fooled by a man than put wise by the Devil...
Like the U.S., which once advised its young men to go west, Israel also has a slogan for its young people. Exhorts a popular Israeli song: "Go south, young man." But Israel's south, the Negev, is no land of opportunity. Comprising half the nation's land total, the Negev is a forbidding wasteland spotted with the rare patches of green of a few farms expensively irrigated by dedicated pioneers. Yet to determined Zionists, the Negev could provide an outlet for Israel's rapidly growing population (more than doubled since 1948, to 1,700,000) and abundant...