Word: sung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Panama Canal. It was easy to foresee that U. S. poets might seize this news as a theme with a classic precedent. The classic precedent, however, contains an error. The traveler who first stood "silent upon a peak in Darien" was not "stout Cortez" (Hernando Cortez) as sung by Poet John Keats. It was Vasco Nunez De Balboa. Poets celebrating the proposed Roosevelt statue should bear in mind that Darien is an eastern dis- trict of the Republic of Panama, on the Caribbean side. Culebra Hill, upon which the Roosevelt statue will stand silent overlooking the spot where the last...
...local Negro, planning to elope with her. African life seems darkest just before Dawn discovers she is white; may marry as she, and the audience, prefer. Louise Hunter was wheedled away from the Manhattan Opera House to sing this part and sing it she does as parts are seldom sung in operetta. Her assistants are eminently vocal and the surroundings dressed in many glowing colors. Lacking only briskness Golden Dawn is the early winter's most eminent sample of its type...
...year after year the acanthus and asphodel sprout above him, Leonidas may have doubted the efficacy of his defence. To be sure, poets have sung him in their spare moments; men have written his name in the encyclopedias and the New York Times; historians have exalted him. He doubts no more. A scintillating triumph has jarred the semi-fossilized bones in their subterraneous abode. For yesterday, the will of a deceased Camden, New Jersey, real estate agent disclosed a sum of $5000 to be devoted to the erection of a fitting and lasting memorial in King Leonidas' home town...
...Chisholm Trail", the imminent production of the Harvard Dramatic Club, derives it name from a cowboy song of the 'seventies, "The Old Chisholm Trail." This ballard, of unknown authorship, was sung on the range from the Rio Grande to the Manitoba border...
...come to distinguish Harvard-Dartmouth athletic events was contributed by the adherents of the Green after the final whistle Saturday, and went partially unrecognized, or worse still was misinterpreted in some quarters. The visiting cheering section had been specifically instructed to remain in the stands until after Harvard had sung its "alma mater". And still they watched and still their wonder grew--the Crimson apparently had no song to honor its name in defeat as well as in victory. The losers were no less amazed. "What manner of men are these, who refuse to celebrate their conquest in the customary...