Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hirsch, alias The Professor. Even Tom Ryan, the cherub-faced sexton, had another name-George Lanoway. He had been arrested 19 times, had gone to Sing Sing for a five-year stretch...
...Francisco-whither, as a result, France will now go as a guest, not as a sponsor. Just to make matters pikestaff-plain. Soviet Ambassador Alexander E. Bogomolov elucidated Russian realism v. French realism for Diplomat Maurice Dejean of the Quai d'Orsay: "France should not try to sing above her range...
...North Carolina sharecropper's shanty where Glenn Settle grew up, his mother used to sing the old Negro spirituals to him. Between songs, she told him: "If white and colored folks just got to know each other better, everything would work out all right...
...first week of peace, those who organized processions will put their long-laid plans into operation, and London and other big cities will be filled with the sound of hideous music. Thousands will march through the streets holding up traffic for days. . . . Patriotic people will sing patriotic songs, and those who have done the least to win the war will sing the loudest. The people who are the least likely to sing songs and wave flags will be the sailors, soldiers and airmen. The people most likely to sing and to be entirely smothered in Union Jacks will...
Last week the Rev. Douglas Cedarleaf, 31, decided to take a hand. First, he preached a sermon, "Vandalism in Throop Street," to his Erie Chapel Presbyterian Church (white) congregation (which included the Strongs). Then he taught them the great Negro anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing. And then he asked them to escort the Strongs home. Some 135 of the congregation's 175 did. Throop Street heard them coming: they were all singing the anthem. At the Strongs' doorstep they formed a circle. Curious neighbors leaning out of their windows saw the minister give the Strongs a Bible...