Word: unsung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vein of Merton of the Movies, The Show Off-to be gracious, tactful, gay- in short, to be charming. The first act-the most amusing first act of the current season-achieves this, but in the second the plot lifts its girlie-girlie face, and ghosts of the unsung ballads interrupt the accomplished small-town gabbing of Maidel Turner, and the adept gaucheries of Drug Clerk Kenneth Dana. Mildred Mac-Leod, as a dreamy girl troubled by an explosion of cloudy and fervent aspiration, plays her part with a pretty precision...
...Spanish shawl, she sang an unaccomplished Spanish love. With eyes, mouth, chin, fingers, feet, she told the story of her song. Then a last tender note half-unsung, she stopped, plucked a flower from her dress, swung across the footlights made as if to throw it to some paunchy fellow, and did not. So everybody laughed after their tears, and Raquel flitted backstage under cover of thunderous applause...
This is honor for the unhonored and singing for the unsung, if ever there was. Editors may profitably use it in place of tobacco for a week or so before returning to their accustomed equanimity...
...instructed to carve, in close proximity to "W. M. Johnston," "W. T. Tilden II.," "R. N. Williams," the unfamiliar name of Fritz Mercur, of Philadelphia, undergraduate of Lehigh University. Twelve years ago the Longwood spectators blinked at the dazzling play of a tall young Californian, until then unheralded, unsung. The engraver's instructions that summer were "Maurice Mc-Laughlin...
...their holes, the world's record for the 400-metre run stood at 48⅓ secs. When Liddell, spindly Scotch parson, snapped the tape in the final, it was 47 3/3 secs. Before Liddell settled the matter the record had been broken twice in heats, by Imbach, an unsung Swiss, by Fitch, a fast Chicagoan...