Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lillibet's case Grandma has modernized her idea of fun to include such excursions as that of last week, when the Princess and a party of friends dined & wined at the Bagatelle, one of Mayfair's toniest nightspots, till past midnight, listened to a red-haired Russian sing Englishmen Never Make Love by Day, danced rumbas and tangos till the band went home. Elizabeth's escort was an old family friend, married, bespectacled Charles Villiers (pronounced Villers), a former colonel in the Grenadier Guards...
...Lomaxes discovered that a Negro folk musician would sing either religious or "sinful" songs, but seldom both. To find the "sinful made-up" songs they had to go where there were plenty of sinful Negroes-the State penitentiaries. On a Mississippi prison farm Convict Joe Baker (alias Seldom Seen) told them: "I never had been in no trouble wid de law . . . but one fellow kept messin' up my homely affairs, so I blowed him down." Then he sang...
...casting a musical, producers usually have a trouble, of either getting an actor who can't sing, or a singer who can't act. The singing seems to have won out, for both Irene Manning and Bill Thompson are ill at ease when not singing and find their outlet in excessive histrionics...
...woven together in the ballet to turn out several delightful sequences. Advice to the lovelorn waxes hysterically historical when Irene Manning, struggling to make up her mind between two men, is given advice by three sexperts, Plato, Freud, and Voltaire, who step down from their poses as statues to sing their solutions to her problem...
...losses"). Then, running down the First Lady's social list, she announced that Mrs. Truman would attend a tea on Oct. 12 given by the Daughters of the American Revolution. In 1939 Mrs. Roosevelt had quit the D.A.R. because it refused to let Negro Contralto Marian Anderson sing in the Society's Constitution Hall; now the D.A.R. was embroiled in a similar controversy with publicity-seeking Negro Pianist Hazel Scott. But the girls tactfully asked no questions about Mrs. Truman's racial opinions...