Word: tis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Honeymooning this week (see MILESTONES), Siam's music-writing King Phumiphon finally sold five royal compositions (Dream of Love, Falling Rain, 'Tis Sundown, Blue Night and an instrumental interlude) to Michael Todd's Peep Show, a Broadway musical now in production. At first fearful that having part in a Broadway show might impair his royal dignity, Phumiphon was won over when Todd pointed out that Margaret Truman is also a professional musician...
Aphorisms in the songs further demonstrate this spirit; Thomas Curtis' True Britton did "haste to the bottle and joyously sing," Joseph Baildon philosophized" Tis better to lie drunk than dead," and Thomas Arne's dilemma was "Which is the Properest Day to Drink...
Thanks, Sir, cried I, 'tis very fine, But where d'ye sleep and where d'ye dine...
Fission: "If 'twere done, 'tis well 'twere done quickly, ere some other power cheat us of the race...