Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quiet week in the White House. Each night from the tower of Epiphany Church, the bells rang out: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing. At a reception for the members of the Supreme Court the President, cheered after his cruise, cheerfully greeted the Justices. It was quiet compared with the gathering last year, when Frank Murphy, just appointed to the Court, was the lion of the week, and the talk buzzed of the new appointments that had put James Cromwell in Canada and Robert Jackson in the Department of Justice...
...last time I saw Paris, Her trees were dressed for spring, And lovers walked beneath those trees, And birds found songs to sing. . . . The last time I saw Paris, Her heart was warm and gay. No matter how they change her I'll remember her that...
...Yule at the winter solstice, sponsored by Dr. Alfred Rosenberg and other extremist Nazis as a substitute for Christmas. Not since the Reformation has Christian feeling in the Reich been more intense. This Christmastide will see millions of Germans quietly celebrating a Christian Christmas. Protestants and Catholics alike will sing that best-beloved of all carols, Silent Night, in the fervent hope that the silent night will be followed by the dawn...
Recently two enthusiasts were persuaded to feed each other chunks of blueberry pie while blindfolded, making appropriate dinner-table chitchat as they went along. Another client was ordered to put a birdcage over his head, sing Listen to the Mocking Bird. More terrifying was the experience of a gentleman who had to lie on a bed sheet in the middle of the studio stage and pretend to be a male seal wooing his mate. To add zest to his performance, a real seal was quietly placed beside him which barked happily down his neck. For thinking up such consequences, listeners...
...Freshman dance, the first one of the year, Don Gahan and his orchestra will swing, and the Dix on sisters will sing for the dancing Yarding and their guests...