Word: sing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they twitted Senator Magnus ("Magnavox") Johnson about his Swedish accent; jibed at the silence of President Coolidge; had a bogus official with much chin foliage sing...
...they were still celebrating the Coolidge silence, razzing the just-defeated John W. Davis and making impersonators of "the Bryan boys" sing...
...principles of a previous era are becoming crystalized and unified so as to become powerful to rise to great heights in the succeeding generations. It was a century when the colorful troubadours and trouveres of the twelve and thirteen hundreds were gradually ceasing, with the disappearance of cortoisie, to sing their love songs throughout the country-side. Little by little their unwritten tunes were assuming a style which at least is intelligible to the modern...
...legend connected with the life of Cadman, the first English Christian poet, that it would be utterly impossible to attempt here to trace his history. And indeed everyone doubtless knows that most important story of how the stranger appeared to him in a dream and commanded his to sing. Then, suddenly, though he pleaded inability, be found himself uttering "verses which he had never heard...
...Manhattan, one John Lynch, life resident of Sing Sing Prison for a murder, was permitted- handcuffed and accompanied by a guard-to attend the funeral of his brother, James ("One-Eye") Lynch, executed in Trenton, N. J., two days before, for a murder. A sharp-eared (or sentimental) news-gatherer heard Lifer Lynch mutter beside the bier: "It doesn...