Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revolutionary armies of Zapata marched into Mexico City singing such songs as Valentina. Today's Mexicans still hear Valentina, as well as more modern ballads, as they bounce to work in battered buses over the capital's paved and cobbled streets. Sometimes the music is from the driver's radio. More often it is strummed by a wandering guitar player who has hopped aboard to travel free. As he plays, he croons; passengers sing with him. When he has finished, he passes...
...Christmas play: "Grandmother was religious enough, but it took a theatrical turn." Soon after she reached New York, Juanita landed a chorus job in the original Show Boat. For the next 15 years she did bits or sang in choruses in The Green Pastures, St. Louis Woman, Sing Out, Sweet Land!, etc. She also organized her own choir, for five years led it over the air. It was not until Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein saw her in audition for Talent '48, a private revue put on by the Stage Managers Club for their Broadway friends, that Juanita...
Playwright George S. Kaufman, 59 (Of Thee I Sing, You Can't Take It with You), and British-born Actress Leueen MacGrath, 34, who played the friendly secretary in the Mayfair, Broadway and movie versions of Edward, My Son, applied for a marriage license in Doylestown...
...interest: driving one of his three trotters in one of his eleven buggies.) He presides at his daily student assemblies; is always full of campus news and cracker-barrel advice ("The hills are changing color again. Be sure to look"). He still holds Sunday vespers, beaming when the boys sing "real loud." In campus affection he has only one rival: his wife Helen, who teaches chemistry and algebra, and is always ready with cocoa when boys drop around...
...group--no more, no fewer can sing in the Dunces--will offer such numbers as "Lydia the Tattooed Lady," "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm," and "Good Night Little Girl, Good Night," as it puts the finishing touches on a year that has included 25 singing engagements...