Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...railroad ticket, I'd resent what he'd done and walk out. If I was broke, I'd wait until payday and then resent." Little resented his way from Cleveland to Chicago, Paris, Wichita and Oklahoma City. Along the way, he stored up inspiration for a song called Flat on My Prat in Pratt, Kansas. In 1939, Scripps-Howard transferred him to the Houston Press. Overnight Carl Victor Little became a fanatic Texan, because "there's no one more zealous than a convert...
...history. There was Lucienne Boyer, who had her heyday in the uncertain years between the wars, a trim but still sizable singer who put across Parlez-Moi d'Amour as if Paris and amour had not changed since the golden nineties (although one line in the song admitted: "Actually, I don't believe any of it"). Then came Edith Piaf, so thin that she was barely visible through the nightclub smoke, with an occasional sentimental number (La Vie en Rose), but in reality a siren of disillusion, a kind of existentialist among chanteuses. But Patachou is almost...
...John Kieran, with a sign on his back: "Ich sage Verse Dir; Gib einen Pfennig mir" ("I'll tell you a verse; you give me a penny.") Customers have flocked to him: schoolchildren who need help on their homework, and adults who want the words of the latest song. Huett has answered everything from "What happens in Schiller's Joan of Arc?" to "Recite some verses from Wilhelm Busch's Max und Moritz," has even been known to recite a geometric theorem or two. About the only question that has stumped him: "What is the size...
...produced with the help of the Council of the Living Theater, which will get 25% of the profits to advance the cause of the legitimate theater outside New York City). Among the guest artists: Shirley Booth handing out autographs; Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II shown composing a new song, a process which, in this version, consists chiefly of Hammerstein complaining that he cannot think of any words, and Rodgers saying soothingly, "It will come, Oscar, it will come"; Joshua (South Pacific) Logan and John (The King and I) Van Druten directing, and looking as nervous as Men of Distinction...
...engine airplane and flying it 95 miles before coming down unscathed, Farm Hand Charles G. Smeltzer explained that he had gone to the airport, climbed into the plane, "pulled on a few gadgets . . . and before I knew it, I was up in the air." Love's Old Sweet Song. In Knoxville, Tenn., John E. Weaver, filing a countersuit for divorce against Hattie Weaver, claimed she wrote a song describing their marriage entitled Thirty Years in Hell...