Rodgers was just about to give up on music and go into the underwear business when their show The Garrick Gaieties (1925) became a huge success.
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They worked on a series of amateur musical comedies together, but their future didn't seem promising. He's famous for writing the lyrics to songs like "Blue Moon" (1934), "My Funny Valentine" (1937), and "The Lady Is a Tramp" (1937).Īs a young man in his twenties, he was drifting around, writing verse in his spare time, when someone introduced him to a teenage composer named Richard Rodgers. It's the birthday of lyricist Lorenz Hart, born in New York City (1895). The first sentence of his book was, "You know more than you think you do." Spock encouraged parents to be affectionate and he also encouraged them to follow their own instincts. His Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (1946) was a best-seller during the period after World War II, when parents across America were raising the Baby Boom generation. Benjamin Spock, ( books by this author) born in New Haven, Connecticut (1903). The King James version went on to become the English symbol of God and country, and it influenced the way writers have used the English language for hundreds of years. People were nostalgic for the period before the war and they saw the King James Bible as an artifact of that simpler time. It was only after England went through a civil war that the King James Bible came into fashion. The first edition came out on this day in 1611, but for decades, most people preferred the Puritan Geneva Bible, because of its plainer language. Some scholars believe that the translators wanted to give the sense that the language in the Bible came from long ago and far away. At the time they were working on the Bible, words like "thou" and "sayeth" had already gone out of fashion. The translators also deliberately used old-fashioned language. So when the committee would gather, each man read his verses aloud to be judged and revised by the other men. They believed that the most important quality of the translation would be that it sound right, since it would be read aloud in churches.
King James assembled a committee of fifty-four of the best linguists in the country. King James wanted a Bible that would become the definitive version, a Bible that all English people could read together. There had been several English translations of the Bible already, and each English version of the Bible had different proponents. King James I thought that a new translation of the Bible might help hold the country together. And a group of underground Catholics were plotting to assassinate the king.
At the same time, Puritans in the country were beginning to agitate against the monarchy as a form of government. An epidemic of the black plague had struck London so severely that the year before work began on the King James Bible, 30,000 Londoners had died of the plague. It was produced during a particularly chaotic period for England. It was on this day in 1611 that the first edition of the King James Bible was published in England. That there hath pass'd away a glory from the earth. Look round her when the heavens are bare The things which I have seen I now can see no more!
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