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Word: sing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theorist. In The Bronx, Sing Gong was arrested for trying to rob a Chinese laundry by waving a .38-caliber cartridge, demanding money, threatening that otherwise he would find a gun somewhere, put the bullet in it, come back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 19, 1942 | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...American army was, and probably always would be, an intensely human army. Irving Berlin's minstrels sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND,THE COST: God Help George Marshall | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...Glee Club now has some 200 members and membership will be open until after the quartet trials which come early in November. Although there is, as always, a special need for toners, there is plenty of room for anybody who likes to sing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club Will Tour 2 States This Spring | 10/13/1942 | See Source »

...these horsemen were operating with General Melnik the whole of .last winter some five hundred miles behind the German lines. One of the officers told me they were pretty lean when they came out, but now they are square-looking again, their horses are fresh and they can sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: A SONG FROM THE CAUCASUS | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

...cargoes. Ace Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel, St. Louis baseball fan, was ordered by her operatic coach to stay away from all the World Series games to keep her from ruining her voice by cheering. For the first time in a blue moon Blues Moaner Libby Holman is slated to sing in a Manhattan nightclub-ten years after the fatal shooting of her tobacco-rich husband Zachary Smith Reynolds. Again from Berlin came news that a dancer had found a hot corner in the impressionable heart of Adolf Hitler. Known professionally as La Jana, she was described as a former friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 12, 1942 | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

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