Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recording sessions encounter innumerable difficulties, especially when they use original tunes. This time the synthetically blue lyric and melody of Mr. Feather's just weren't enough of a catalyst for King Louie. The other side, featuring the Armstrong trumpet, is a little better although the arrangement and the theme with which Mr. Feather saw fit to provide the musicians would have been more in place on a score of background music for one of Walt Disney's short animated cartoons...
Herbert George Wells, 79, Britain's cantankerous, senescent pamphleteer-historian, dug into his files, came out swinging with an updated version of a favorite theme: an attack on the royal family. In an article in the diminutive weekly Socialist Leader, he raised a pointed question: was the King involved in Mussolini's prewar financial support of British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley? If so, "there is every reason why the House of Hanover should follow the House of Savoy into exile...
...theme of the book is admirable and true: that the good of the individual follows from the good of the nation. Where Bowles falls down is that he is preoccupied with what we can have rather than how we are going to get it. The blurb on the back page states the case well: "Bowles is optimistic about the American future. He knows that we have the necessary ingredients for a fuller, more prosperous life than we have ever known. All that is needed is the understanding and determination of the people, cooperation of business, labor, and farmers, and coordination...
...speeches of the military dignitaries was marked by the theme of preparedness. Said Edson, "We must not forget . . . . what has taken place in the past, and we must prepare ourselves to protect those ideals for which we have fought...
...Brooklyn specialist, Dr. William Lieberman, is one of the foremost U.S. authorities on the history of the enema. Last week, in the Review of Gastroenterology, he wrote with scholarly authority on his cathartic theme...