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Word: sing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such busy people, you find plenty to do in your leisure hours: swimming, of course, and golf and tennis and cards - 45% of you make a hobby of photography, 44% work in the garden, 19% own boats, 11% play chess - more than one out of ten of you sing in public. And you read so many books (an average of about 23 books a year each) that the readers of TIME account for more than half of all the members of the Book of the Month Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 11, 1943 | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...young Tasmanian signalman named Joe Loveless went to work. The force settled in bamboo huts, watched the sun rise and fall, played cards, taught natives to sing Lambeth Walk and Lead, Kindly Light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Sparrows of Timor | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

John Jacob Niles, well-known collector of American folk songs who appeared in a recital last night in Paine Hall under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund and the Harvard Department of Music, will play and sing informally again at 8 o'clock tonight in Eliot Junior Common Room, it was announced yesterday by John H. Finley, Jr., Master of Eliot House. This additional appearance is planned for Eliot House members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Folk Songs for Eliot | 1/7/1943 | See Source »

...Chicago Opera last week, Kiepura was scheduled to sing opposite another Carmen: sloe-eyed Contralto Coe Glade. In rehearsal, Kiepura carefully pulled his punches. Annoyed, Contralto Glade avowed that she was no sissy and could take anything Contralto Swarthout could, and maybe a little more. "Put that in writing," demanded Kiepura. Contralto Glade promptly wrote: "You may consider this your release of any criticism on my part for any physical damage I may receive tonight as the result of your usually vigorous and dynamic portrayal of Don José. The public does not want nor does it expect a polite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Beat Me, Daddy! | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...everybody happy, pilgrims? Yeah! Yeah! If so, sing Hallelujah, pilgrims! Yeah! Yeah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Second Front in Harlem | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

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