Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After breakfast men drifted together in the corner of the wardroom. One of them softly began to sing. Shyly others cleared their throats and chimed in. As the singing finally died down, one officer smiled a funny smile and broke into Just Before the Battle, Mother...
Gene Tierney is wonderful. She doesn't sing, she doesn't dance, she doesn't even act--she merely parades around displaying her God-given equipment. She does get old eventually, in keeping with the so-called plot, but, by a stroke of Holly woodian genius, her senility is strictly limited to the area above the neck...
Lazybones. Two years ago the Robesons moved into a big colonial house with a swimming pool and tennis court at Enfield, Conn. (Cracked their repairman: "He'll have to sing a lot of songs to heat this place.") Once dubbed a lazy man by his wife, Robeson embodies a queer definition of laziness. Besides acting, cinemacting (Song of Freedom, King Solomon's Mines, Show Boat), carrying Water Boy to the ends of the earth, broadcasting and making hundreds of gramophone recordings, Robeson has been working on a vast treatise about African culture, has tackled an invention for improving...
...into a police car, "zigzagged wildly from curb to curb" in hot pursuit. The screaming made Mrs. Sousa tense, as she lay in bed drinking bottled beer. Father tossed the captured children on to the grass "as if they were bags of mail." "These kids ought to be in Sing Sing," he snarled. "Won't you children come in for a little ice cream?" called Mrs. Sousa from her window...
Nothing could be more disconcerting to our study habits than to watch the seniors packing their gear, preparatory to their happy exit. It wouldn't be so hard to take if they wouldn't whistle and sing while packing; they seem to forget that we are sensitive human beings and must stick around for another two months. However, they've been damn swell to us and we wish them the best of luck...