Here are two more of the songs published in 1921: "A Parable" and "Roses Breathe in the Night."
As a dramatic song in a minor key, "A Parable" does not offer much of an opening for the major dominant ninth. In fact, this is the best we can do:
Someone *might* construe the climax chord as a ninth with flat 5 (dotted boxes), but honestly I don't think so. I don't trust chords in the middle of a pedal point passage (and in any case the ninth is immediately lost, both times).
Things are really not much better in "Roses Breathe in the Night." The motivic middle-voice half-step play (see the accented notes B-A# in the opening) does not invite anything like the open sound of the ninth chord, but we get at least this in bars 6 & 7: a V9, then a raised fifth (and seventh)--as A#4 and C#4) and continued movement up to B4 and D4.
At the end of the first section, the climax chord is not a V9 but A: iiø7 (circled); V9 does appear in the cadence (boxed) but then the mode promptly shifts to minor with the tonic, erasing any subsequent influence.
