Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agriculture. I want to unite Catholic and Protestant, Jew and Gentile." The crowd, waving U. S. flags, chanted again as in Philadelphia: "We want Willkie!" During one interlude of cheering, Maestro Walter Damrosch, sitting in a box, jumped up, and tried with husky voice and tears in eyes to sing My Country, 'Tis of Thee. Willkie finished his speech. The crowd rose to the national anthem, while the spotlight held their candidate in its silver glare...
...Sing Sing penitentiary officials patiently reiterated that eligible prisoners must wait until release, then register at nearest local draft boards...
Before Ethel would sign a contract to appear in her first Cole Porter musical, Anything Goes, she made the songwriter play and sing the score before her and her parents. They vetoed two of the numbers. Since that time, like all Porter enthusiasts, she has been willing to accept his music, sound unheard. He calls her the "most efficient" songstress on the stage. Her efficiency includes her ability, as an ex-stenographer, to take down suggested script or lyrics in shorthand and type them for her own private rehearsal...
...happens that the Club is going to sing works by three German and one Austrian composer, Bach, Brahms, Mendelssolm, and J. Strauss. Any inquiry in proper quarters would have disclosed this fact...
...official Democratic campaign material. Nor was the official 1936 campaign song, Happy Days Are Here Again, relevant to 1940. Last week the Democratic National Committee insisted that they had no official song, would have none. At campaign headquarters in Manhattan, 20 or more people turned up every day to sing (with typical composers' voices) until Democrats were beside themselves. Some 300 songs were submitted by mail, promptly rejected. The Committee likewise explicitly disavowed songs like Roosevelt's Campaign Song, by two Chicagoans, whose chorus goes "We want Roosevelt, he gave us all of our loans. . . . We want Roosevelt...