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Word: sing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...played in virtually every U.S. camp, last fall hopped off with his USO team (Singer Frances Langford, Guitarist Tony Romano, Comic Jerry Colonna) to tour Alaska. When, at the last moment, it looked as if the tour would fall through, Hope wired Lieut. General Simon B. Buckner: WE SING, DANCE, TELL STORIES; HAVE TUXEDOS; WILL TRAVEL; CAN WE PLAY YOUR CIRCUIT? They played it straight through to tiny posts in the Aleutians where men almost never get leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Hope for Humanity | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

...Glee Club opened the concert with the singing of Handel's "Lot the Celestial Concerts All Unite," accompanied by Caldwell Titcomb '47 at the piano. Paul Tibbetts '45, baritone, sang a solo, "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent." Later in the program, the Radcliffe group joined with the Glee Club in singing several numbers, including some Latin American selections. At the conclusion of the Yard "sing," the audience joined with the two musical groups in singing several of the College songs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club Joins With Radcliffe in Concert | 9/17/1943 | See Source »

...first Yard Concert of the year, the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society will sing an operatic program Thursday night at 6:30 o'clock on the steps of Widener Library. The concert is open to the public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club Will Give Yard Concert At 6:30 Thursday | 9/14/1943 | See Source »

...York's Sing Sing had about 2,730 inmates three years ago. Today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Empty Cells | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...Post Office called the songbook "lewd and obscene," even though it had been reviewed by the military. Post Exchanges continued to sell it. Men in service, never noted for dainty diction, continued to sing of disrespect and dirt as they went about their dirty business: We had a major and his name was Tack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Keep 'em Blushing | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

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