Word: trails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trail's a lane, the trail's a lane. Dead is the branding fire. The prairies wild are tame and mild, All close corralled with wire. -Badger Clark...
...troop trains, recruits who dug straddle ditches and loaded ammunition until their backs were fairly broken, had one song which helped more than any other to see them through the War. In leaky barracks, smoky cafes and on endless marches ''There's a Long. Long Trail'' was sung rowdily, nostalgically. Last week, in Spokane, Wash., after five months of sleeping sickness, Death took Stoddard King, the man who wrote the words of the War's No. 1 song...
There's a long, long trail awinding...
Down that long, long trail with...
...Mory's, the New Haven biers tube where Yale romantics like to think ''The Long, Long Trail" was written, Stod King's initials are carved on one of the big round table tops strung up around the wall. But his song is carved still deeper in the history of the War. Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink and Tenor Enrico Caruso sang it in Liberty Loan drives. Elsie Janis sang it in France from the back of a truck. The first U. S. troops to land in England marched in review to it before Ambassador Page and Admiral...