Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Steps toward Rescue. Continuous rowing uses up more energy than it is worth. When in a lifeboat "do not sing or shout. By doing so you use up your strength and lose valuable water in your breath." Mirages occur at sea as in the desert. "Men adrift in northern latitudes sometimes imagine they can see things which are not there, such as smoke, sails, ships or land. It does not mean that you are out of your mind or even lightheaded. Make very sure that all of you see the same object before wasting your strength in pulling toward...
...Famed for his murder in 1872 of his friend Jim Fisk (Jay Gould's partner) after quarrels over bad business and bad, buxom Actress Josie Mansfield. Killer Stokes got off with four years in Sing Sing, emerged to buy control of the Hoffman House...
...austere, thorough New York Times reported: "As one of his last acts in office, it was learned yesterday, Governor Poletti commuted the sentence of Alexander Hoffman, C.I.O. union official and Left Wing sympathizer, who was sentenced on Dec. 4, 1940, to four to eight years in Sing Sing for attempted arson . . . and conspiracy...
Pinza, who has been singing at the Met for 16 years, is the answer to an impresario's prayer. He can sing any of 55 operatic roles at a few hours' notice. He has no objection to playing minor roles, usually succeeds in making them seem major. No scene-stealer, he can be counted on to help inexperienced members of the cast. A wonderful example of what the Italians call a basso cantante ("singing bass"), he combines baritone agility with bass sonority and boom. That voice, at the Metropolitan and in concert tours, grosses between...
High spots: Paulette Goddard, Dorothy Lamour and Veronica Lake sing, in appropriate costume, a little number called A Sweater, A Sarong and a Peek-a-Boo-Bang; Rochester (in a zoot suit) and Dancer Katherine Dunham give out with a strutting Sharp As a Tack; Vera Zorina does a veil dance; Betty Hutton, during a wild, bruising ride in a jeep, sings a ditty known as I'm Doin' It for Defense; a shapely crew of aircraft workers sing and dance a number called On the Swing Shift. Bob Hope, closeted with an angry man in a shower...