Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither the hero of "The Mermaids Singing," a prominent playwright, nor the heroine, a sweet young thing, are likeable or believable people. The height of their implausibility comes, properly enough, at the second act climax. The girl runs off in the middle of the night and tells the married playwright she is in love with him, that anything he wishes to do is all right with her, and the sooner he does it, the better. The playwright, a man of morals, tells her to go home and wait while he makes up his mind. And it doesn't take...
...Government has only 126 seats against 119 for the combined Opposition, such an event would be extremely hazardous. The Cabinet could allow the intraparty fight to flare on the floor of the House of Commons, and risk defeat. Or it could cancel the tariff increases. Neither alternative was sweet...
...eleven years Guy Lombardo's band has been picked by 700 U.S. radio editors as the top sweet band on the air. The Royal Canadians gross nearly a million dollars a year, have cut 500 phonograph discs. Last year the Royal Canadians were acclaimed by Orchestra World for introducing more song hits (250) than any other band. Some 30 were written by Brother Carmen-among them Confucius Say, Coquette, Oh, Moitle and Boo-Hoo (BooHoo, I'll tell my mama on you, the little game that you played has made her baby oh! so blue). Downbeat a trade...
...publicity man calls "the sweetest music this side of heaven," and others call just this side of mooing. Imitators have had their men tune off key, nick their reeds and pour warm milk into the bells of their saxophones, but they have never quite hit it. Guy says his sweet simple music is "for people already in love or potentially in love. . . . We try not to displease anyone...
...made enough to buy the factory. Last year he had saved up enough money to hire 75 members of the famed Philadelphia Orchestra in their off hours. On the top floor of his factory, he rehearsed them in musical bonbons by Johann Strauss and Offenbach, and piped both the sweet and sour notes to the candy kitchens below. Then he took his Pops Orchestra on a tour of Army & Navy hospitals, paying out $1,200 for each concert...