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Word: sing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hope" (supposed to provide an immediate job for any actor who touched it) was knocked down on a Harlem street corner where it grew, Tap Dancer Bill Robinson joined the frantic crowd that tore it to splinters; trying to save it, he salvaged two chunky hunks. / / Dated to sing this week at a ball at wealthy Mrs. Herbert Shipman's plushy villa in Newport is her new neighbor, Gertrude Niesen, chatelaine of the Oelrichs mansion. / / Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 24 and twice a father, won his appeal to Washington for draft deferment as a family man. / / When the chorus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 18, 1941 | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

...praise we'll sing out loud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBERIA: Washington-Monrovia Axis | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

Liberian girls will sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBERIA: Washington-Monrovia Axis | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

...singer who made the record bears the press-agented title of "The Star-Spangled Soprano"-Lucy Monroe. Soprano Monroe, who used to sing accurately and unspectacularly in musicomedy, radio and the Metropolitan Opera (when it had a second-string spring season), got in the patriotic groove when she let loose the national anthem before the 1937 American Legion convention. Now she sings it at the doff of a hat. She believes that every office and factory worker should be made to start the day right by listening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Total Patriotism | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

...director of RCA Victor's newly created Department of Patriotic and American Music, she will sing it on tour, will also speak on "Patriotism in Music," organize patriotic songfests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Total Patriotism | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

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