Word: sing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...professions. Some, broadening and deepening as the years pass, make excellent mothers to rich little children; others keep their figures and their friends and go on entertaining long after their footlight days are over; a few seek fame. Last week one Mary Lewis was engaged by Gatti-Casazza to sing with the Metropolitan Opera. Before her debut in January as Mimi in La Bohème she will give a concert in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan...
...glee club, an undergraduate in that university has offered the first heartfelt diagnosis of what is wrong with American education. "What this university needs," he says, "what all American universities need just now, is less intellect and more boys who shave blue and chew tobacco, and who, when they sing in the back room, can produce those rumbling profundo notes from the waist line...
Thomas Mott Osborne '84, former warden of Sing Sing Prison and the leading prison reformer in the country, will speak at 8 o'clock tonight at Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House...
...Osborn became very much interested in the prison situation and in 1913 he was appointed chairman of the New York Commission on Prison Reform. A year later he was made warden of Sing Sing...
...years of wardenship at Sing Sing were stormy and exciting. He was indicted for alleged "mismanagement" but the case was dismissed promptly. The return of Warden Osborne to Sing Sing was marked by a frantic demonstration by the prisoners among whom he was always extremely popular