Word: sing
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Robert Donald, Hamilton, Ont., is one of Canada's 6,900 Jehovah's Witnesses.* He had sued the Hamilton school board for $2,600 after his two sons had been expelled from school for refusing to salute the flag, sing God Save the King or repeat an oath of allegiance. Justice John Andrew Hope dismissed the suit. Said he: "I can conceive of no more certain way of creating . . . friction amongst the pupils of a class as to their love of country, and their duty to their country, than by permitting haphazard compliance with the singing...
Justice Hope's decision (from which an appeal was unlikely) was based on Ontario laws requiring all public school students to sing the national anthem, all teachers to teach patriotism...
There were two vocalists, male and female. The male was a very good bass player. The female was a blushing violet who belonged to one of the Middies. After begging all night for the band leader to let her sing, she finally "condescended to come up and sing a few numbers" while her partner beamed in ecstasy. It finally took three sax players, the janitor and Charlie Sigety to pull her away from the "mike." Realy, though, she wasn...
...brother of the late, free-loving danseuse Isadora Duncan, celebrated the occupation of his adopted Paris by donning his famed pre-war getup, Greek toga and sandals, then marching to the U.S. Embassy with the U.S. flag in hand. He gave the banner to the Swiss caretaker, proceeded to sing Yankee Doodle until he was hoarse...
Mary-Agnes Brown was a Washington lawyer and authority on veterans' legislation before she joined. Her stern hairdo belies 42-year-old Brown's lighter side. She can do Mexican folk dances and sing Mexican love songs in a fair soprano. Stationed in Australia, she is staff director in the Southwest Pacific area...