Word: sung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Budapest, the police ruled that the Hungarian text of the famed Banana Song is immoral and must not be sung in public, ordered a jazz band in a popular cafe to cease playing the melody. The indignant musicians asserted that a melody cannot be immoral, filed a protest with the Department of the Interior...
...Park of the Second Congregational Church of Newton, who is conducting the daily services in the chapel this week, will speak especially on the ex-President's life, character, and ideals. Wilson's favorite hymns, "The Son of God Goes Forth to War" and "Onward Christian Soldiers", will be sung...
...traveled widely. He taught and lectured. He has planned pageants such as Caliban. He has written any num-ber of odes for this and that celebration. He has written as ambitious a narrative poem as Dogtown Common. Two of his books have become operas and both have been sung by major organizations. Now he has buried himself in the Kentucky mountains where, with Mrs. Mac-Kaye, he has studied the natives, their strange language and customs and has already written five plays concerning these simple folk. The first (This Fine Pretty World), recently produced in Manhattan, met with high critical...
Mario Chamlee tells a diverting story about his first performance as the Duke in Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. The baritone role was sung by De Luca. Now, De Luca is a very merry person, as are many who excel in tragic parts. His round, snub-nosed face was made for mirth, especially its wide, thin-lipped mouth, which even in repose is curved like a jocose crescent. When De Luca sings, he grimaces in such a way that his mouth carries the leer of a laughing satyr...
...socalled, that have no cheery, comfortable, fireside; while there are places in which young men and women just married and in whose minds the glorious glow of love was still undimmed, had to face poverty, degradation, dirt and sordidness." At the beginning of the meeting the Socialist Marseillaise was sung. At the end a rendition of The Red Flag was given. God Save the King was not sung...