Word: thees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanted to compare thee to the mountain, but the summit of every mountain can be seen...
...wanted to compare thee to the moon, but the moon only shines at night...
...wanted to compare thee to the sun, but the sun only shines on, bright days...
When in the first scene 59-year-old George M. Cohan, answering to the name of President Roosevelt in top hat, cutaway and pince-nez, summoned his Cabinet to a meeting in Manhattan's Central Park, playgoers settled down to a show they expected to surpass Of Thee I Sing. But they soon found it was not as good as all that...
Compared to Of Thee I Sing, with which Author Kaufman, in company then with Morrie Ryskind and the Gershwins. won the Pulitzer Prize for 1931, I'd Rather Be Right is a buttoned, if glistening, foil. The Kaufman-Ryskind play took a swift jab at the heart of the body politician, and the late George Gershwin's "Wintergreen for President" summed up the whole oompah spirit of torchlit political nonsense in a single musical phrase. The new play pokes playfully at a dozen current problems, much in the manner of the semi-annual Gridiron satires staged...