Search Details

Word: sing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Distributed to soldiers last week was a pocket-size, words-without-music version of a new Army Song Book. Copies with music had been issued previously to bandsmen, reserve officers who had experience in group singing, and the soldiers themselves (one copy to groups of 50 men). Of the 67 songs, most were as familiar to civilians as they were to soldiers (The Last Roundup, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, The Star-Spangled Banner, Dixie, Casey Jones, etc.). Newer to rookies were the Army songs: > The Field Artillery's rollicking The Caissons Go Rolling Along, written for horse artillerymen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Songs for Soldiers | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

Causes of the resolution, as stated by Darr, were letters from southern glee clubs at which the Harvard Club was to sing, informing the club managers that King's presence would be both unwelcome and a source of embarrassment. As a result of the Corporation's recent decision on the racial question, the officers decided to take a similar stand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Singers Protest Banning of Colored Tenor on Glee Club Southern Trip | 5/23/1941 | See Source »

...near Fifth Avenue (TIME, Jan. 27). At their trial they played mad, one never speaking nor noticing, the other screaming and recklessly banging his head against a table, but a jury swiftly found them guilty of first-degree murder. Still their exhibition was not over. On the way to Sing Sing last week one of them attacked the driver of their car with his unmanacled fist, and at the door of the prison they put on this show. They were locked up in the empty women's wing of the death house so that they could not disturb other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: To The Death House | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...event of considerable importance to the juke boxes of the U.S. Southwest occurred last week when Decca recorded Ramon Armengod, Mexico's Bing Crosby, singing Amor, Amor, Amor, Mexico's "new song." It is a cancion bolero with a lovely, lazy melody and a fetching Franz Lehar swipe at the end of the middle part, and Senor Armengod has the voice to sing it bravely. But Amor, Amor, Amor is not new. It has been played south of the Bravo (Rio Grande to Yanquis) for several years. It is called new by Mexicans because, with the fierce competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: South of the Bravo | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...hammiest, Miss Blondell, hubby Dick Powell or other-man Lee Bowman in the transparent love-plot involving secret marriage and desire-for-baby. "Model Wife" has two redeeming features, the expert comedy acting of Charles Ruggles, and the fact that the clam-faced Powell is not called upon to sing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 5/13/1941 | See Source »

Previous | 170 | 171 | 172 | 173 | 174 | 175 | 176 | 177 | 178 | 179 | 180 | 181 | 182 | 183 | 184 | 185 | 186 | 187 | 188 | 189 | 190 | Next