Word: sung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within the next two weeks he spent several hundred thousand dollars for 2,127 items, including 250 pieces from the Ming dynasty (A.D. 1368-1644), 30 rare objects from the Sung period (A.D. 960-1279), more than 1,800 fine 18th and 19th century hand-woven silk carpets, many ivory, jade, bronze and wood figures, porcelain bowls. Some, but not all, were museum pieces...
...home. Some sentries suffered the indignity of having toffee apples stuck on their bayonets; others found as they started off on their 25 paces that their shoelaces had been tied together. This summer has been especially galling: tourists have poked, tickled, thrown banana peels or ice-cream cups underfoot, sung out derisive marching orders, brazenly grabbed at the guards and screamed: "Look, he's real!" But no matter what the tourists did-"They seem to think we're exhibits in a zoo"-the guards had no defense except an official but effective maneuver in which they abruptly...
...toward the "darkies" that used to pass for progressiveness in the South. What really matters in the show is George Gershwin's music; some of it, particularly the recitative, is banal, but half a dozen tunes are as good as any Gershwin wrote, and Summertime will still be sung and loved a hundred years from...
Empire Day was rechristened Commonwealth Day, which led the London Economist last December to wonder just what it is "we are celebrating" and to publish a ditty, to be sung to the tune of The Twelve Days of Christmas...
...record jacket for 3 Folk Sing states that "folk songs should be sung for the same reason they've always been sung, because they're fun." This philosophy comes across well in the concert. It shows originality, ingenuity, spontaneity...