Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sing Sing, Warden William E. Snyder lifted the prison's 10:30 radio curfew to let convicts follow the returns. Among the listeners: five men in the death house...
...friendliness. lie enjoyed whittling, because, he said: "Waittiers are thinkers . . . and from groups of whittlers come the trickles of sentiment and conviction which merge at last to form the broad stream of public opinion." In the evening he liked to read poetry aloud to the assembled family, or sing snatches of Gilbert & Sullivan and Scottish ballads. He loved to play the "heavy villain" in family melodramas, "dragging one foot behind him, scowling over his shoulder," and barking his favorite ejaculation: "By the great horn spoon...
...robbed each other, and the Wall Street wolves of the '30s, who robbed widows and orphans. Another distinction that may strike audiences as more valid is that the barons (most of them) ended up in mansions on Fifth Avenue and the wolves (some of them) in Sing Sing cells...
...wake of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's visit to Moscow, an incident from another famed visit bobbed up last week. All one night U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Eric Johnston and Writer William L. White* listened to their Moscow hosts sing Russian songs. Then the Russians politely asked their guests to sing an American song. Johnston and White responded with the only song they could think of: Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam...
...verse of a parody of Casey Jones which China-Burma-India pilots sing: Old 87 was a pile of junk After too many hours over the Hump With her flap handle busted And her gear stove in And a great big dent in her vertical...