Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Federal House of Detention on a 14-year dope-peddling sentence. Last week he was still there, alive & well. Still alive also were two Lepke triggermen named Capone (no kin to Al) and Weiss, who were scheduled to die with him. Waiting for Lepke, his henchmen have languished in Sing Sing's death house since December...
Dark rumors began to circulate that perhaps the Administration hesitated to turn its unpleasant little prisoner over to New York because Lepke "knew too much." Was it possible that Governor Dewey might allow Lepke to "sing," unchallenged, on certain New Dealish labor leaders with whom he had once done business...
...later they saw, grey in the distance, the aged, blue-green bronze that is the substance of dreams-the Statue of Liberty. Only they could say what that meant to them, and of the 1,223, not one could voice what is unvoiceable. But one wavering voice began to sing God Bless America-and they all sang it, the sophisticated and the plain, and meant...
...twang of real mountaineer goings on. These upcountry proceedings continue for an hour over CBS Station KMOX, a 50,000-watter with some 2,500.000 steady listeners. They emanate from a radio group known as Cousin Emmy and Her Kin Folks. There is square-dance music, a female duo singing something like Back in the Saddle Again, a comedy rube act, a "Western instrumental trio," and Cousin Emmy, who best describes the rest of the show: "First I hits it up on my banjo, and I wow 'em. Then I do a number with the guit-tar and play...
After years of trying, she got to sing a song on the daddy of hillbilly radio programs, Grand 01' Opry, over Station WSM at Nashville. Then she made a hit yowling Ground Hog with Frank Moore and His Log Cabin Boys over WHAS, Louisville. Moore named her Cousin Emmy, and eventually she had her own air show. Two years ago KMOX hired...