Word: sing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the public hears about Sing Sing Prison, at Ossining, N. Y., it is usually news of an escape or a sensational execution. But escapes are rare; only three of the 18 who have escaped since 1920 are still at large. And news of executions is sensationally inaccurate...
Prisons are abnormal places. Most things that happen in them would be incongruous in society at large. Conversely, much that happens in society at large would seem incongruous in a prison. One evening last week there were three episodes at Sing Sing, New York's famed penitentiary, of which the most horrible was the least incongruous...
...sister of one opened by her a year ago on the Rue de la Paix in Paris. In Washington she gave a concert, was entertained by President and Mrs. Coolidge, Polish Minister and Mme. Jan Ciechanowska, French Ambassador and Mme. Paul Claudel. la Chicago she had intended to sing but instead she took to her bed with influenza, cancelled all future engagements. When newsmen asked Harvester Harold Fowler McCormick if his wife intended to forsake her singing, he answered: "I am sure I don't know, but I'd like to. Can't you find...
Christmas-time has always been the time for singing. The Yule festivities have changed from country to country and from century to century, but song has always had a part in them. Whether it is unconscious echo of the song of the angels over Bethlehem, or because music is the highest expression of the happiness that is the heart of the Christmas season, no one can tell. It is enough that men sing who do not sing at any other time...
...also been announced that the Glee Club, in conjunction with the Radcliffe Choral Society, will sing parts of Bloch's "American Symphony" when it is played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra on Friday, December 21, and Saturday, December...