Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spontaneous veto-rule: one of them would suggest an idea for a lyric or hum a snatch of melody; if the other actively opposed it, out it went without argument. Some days, when working to a deadline, they might draft all but the last eight bars of a song, and each go home to dream up his own solution. After that, a song usually got about a week's polishing before both were satisfied...
Elias gave him sermons and advice Instead of song, which simply proves once more What things are sure this side of paradise: Death, taxes, and the counsel of the bore. Though we outwit the tithe, make death our friend, Bores we have with us even...
...modern baseball fan has good reason to change the words of the old song to "I don't know if I'll ever get back." In growing bigger, big-league baseball has also grown painfully slower as pitchers outwait batters, batters outwait pitchers, managers perform for TV, and umpires examine the ball, the plate and the terrain for dangerous specks of dust...
...dinner the President and First Lady led their guests to the East Room, to the dum-dum-de-dum strains of the wedding march from Lohengrin. There was a short string concert by members of the Air Force Symphony Orchestra, and then Ike helped pass around the West Point song books. For two hours the Class of 1915 sang the old songs, with assistance from the orchestra...
Into Tin Pan Alley's Broadway capitol, the Brill Building, there passes each day a hustling parade of tunesmiths and music agents, each hopeful that he carries the answer to a song publisher's prayer. "This number is the greatest," one says, or "I gotta song here, it'll fracture 'em." The publishers buy such songs in the hundreds each year, and record-company presses compound the fractures by turning them out with the regularity of automatic cooky cutters. The multitude of dins is largely devoted, of course, to love, and mostly in songs that court...