Word: sing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suffer from alcoholic poisoning"--like "to be hanged by the neck until dead", the phrase has an ominous connotation. The sufferer may be blissfully unconscious of his pain. He may shout joyfully--he may even sing; but these external manifestations of an inward laceration mean nothing. No lady will look upon him other than as on one whose punishment is that of the damned and whose torture knows no alleviation. And so, as the damsel said, "He may be boiled to you but to me he's an unfortunate victim of alcoholic poisoning...
Glee Club to Sing...
Harvard night at this year's Pops will be on May 16 when the University Glee Club will sing and other numbers of especial Harvard interests will be presented. This evening devoted to Harvard will be preceded by a Radcliffe night...
...Sing Sing Death House last week sat Thomas ("Red") Moran, awaiting the electric chair. To visitors, Convict Moran made complaint, lamenting, however, not his fate but his neighbors. On the one hand he is flanked by Convict Julius Gibbs, subject to fits of epilepsy. On the other he has Convict Adam Nappe, who speaks no English, with whom no hours can be whiled away in converse. Disgusted, Convict Moran said: "This is a fine combination to be up against...
Among many who support the theory of English opera by native singers is Mary Garden of the Chicago Opera. Several months ago, she journeyed to Rochester to sing with the students in a presentation of Carmen. While they used the English libretto, she sang the role in French, "just to do something to indicate her sympathy...