Word: ballading
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...18th Century, corpses were in such great demand by anatomists that "resurrection" of dead bodies "became a racket, the like of which Chicago never knew." Rival gangs robbed graves, lured victims to lonely inns, strangled them, sold the remains to innocent doctors. Londoners sang the popular ballad of Mary's Ghost, complaint of a resurrected girl to her lover: "The arm that used to take your...
...identity of the hero of this hell-for-leather ballad stumped the Information Please experts a few Tuesdays back, but hundreds of thousands of radio fans, young and old, could instantly have whooped out his name - The Lone Ranger! Hi-Yo, Silver...
...from each other as well as the adults in the cast. The Dionne disdain for story values and decorum is only less marked than their disdain for their public which, in Five of a Kind, is most apparent when they are called upon to render the simple little nursery ballad, Freère Jacques. The Dionnes are so impudent as to sing it in five different keys, squealing and chuckling as they do so. Throughout the rest of the picture they amuse themselves by a sleepy race on rocking horses, frightening five cocker spaniel puppies and misbehaving...
...takes place in a recognizable world of village gossip, youthful lovemaking, Kentucky feuds, with characters who are farmers, truck drivers, wise widows and runaway girls. The telephone and radio have reached Miss Roberts' countryside but the people have not changed much: they are superstitious, religious, poetic, great musicians, ballad makers, storytellers. They are also high-spirited: 23-year-old Dena Janes runs away with a truck driver, leaves him when he threatens to kill her, lives in dread of a shot from ambush while she lives down her disgrace in her home town. Weakened by a few cloudy, symbolical...
...Stearns ungraciously produced a letter which he said Mr. Service had written to him in 1928 in answer to a question: "I have no doubt that the Malamute Saloon was entirely imaginary. At this distant date, however, I have little recollection of the circumstances in which my notorious ballad was perpetrated, and my only regret is that I have been unable to live it down." An old bonanza operator named "Skiff" Mitchell had the last word. Sniffed he: "I knew Sam McGee, the fellow who was cremated in that other poem, before he was cremated. Mahoney knew him afterward...