Word: valleyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...custom of noisily serenading a couple on their wedding night is called a shivaree (from the French charivari) in the Mississippi Valley, belling in Western Pennsylvania, skimmelton in the Hudson Valley, horning in Rhode Island...
Some customers feel that the libretto should have been poured over a waffle instead of an audience, but most of them like Weill's witty, musicianly development of the folk themes (Down in the Valley...
...grasshoppers. There are rattlesnakes, lizards, pack rats and mice in the vicinity-none of them, apparently, the worse for their hot habitat. A cottontail rabbit has a home in the crater itself. The antelope (which local stories said had been frightened into Mexico) are back in the great arid valley...
Down in the Valley, a one-act "folk opera" by Composer Kurt Weill and Librettist Arnold Sundgaard, had become a sensational hit on the campus theater circuit all over the U.S. Written a year ago, it had already had some 80 separate productions. Last week its latest one was the biggest hit in the three-year history of Manhattan's zestful Lemonade Opera company...
Down in the Valley is made to that measure. No scenery is needed, and fewer than a dozen singers, none of whom needs any great vocal range or agility. The story is pathetic enough to sluice any church basement with tears. Brack Weaver loves Jennie Parsons. Her father wants her to pay attention to Thomas Bouché, who has him on a financial hook. Jennie refuses. Bouché pulls a knife on Brack. Brack kills him, is sentenced to death, escapes from jail to spend his last hours with Jennie, then goes dutifully back...