Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...murmur went through the crowd. The Tricolor was going up on the tower of the cathedral whose stained glass windows Henry Adams once called "the Court of the Queen of Heaven." Beside the Tricolor waved the Stars & Stripes. Spontaneously the crowd began to sing the Marseillaise...
...somehow he was convicted, in 1939, of selling Dutch Schultz protection against the law. With appeals, Jimmy Hines fought the case for 20 months before he went up the river to Sing Sing...
Richard Whitney, ex-New York Stock Exchange president, now an industrial sales broker in Boston, on parole from Sing Sing, asked permission of the Massachusetts parole board to set up a frozen-fruit business in Florida...
There's an old song that Beatrice Lillie used to sing to the sweltering British troops in the African campaign. It's an oldie, and it's entitled "Mad Dogs and Englishmen Go Out in the Midday Sun." Well, none of us are Englishmen, orgo we must be mad dogs, because these days you don't even have to go out in the midday sun. It's that hot at midnight and in Disbursing classes. How Lt. Bockham can retain that composure, voice and starched collar is the current mystery...
Dick Armstrong, who has been doing deserving work teaching his pals to sing in formation, has an all time record for date mix-ups. Dick had five dates for one evening. Only the maneuvering of the old master, Ken Mills, was able to extract him in one piece. We don't think he issued rationing cards but however he managed it, he known something which any good midshipman could use in Boston or Hampton these days...