Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Else Marie Hall, 20, daughter of famed Norwegian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad; and Accountant Arthur Dusenbury, son of a wealthy ranch owner; in Bozeman, Mont. Else had once thought of becoming a singer, changed her mind because "I am afraid I could never sing as well as Mother...
...Sometimes at dawn turkeys go "high-stepping." With lifted wings they hop, jump up & down, then spring forward. During this "Turkey Trot," the hens sing "quit, quit," while the gobblers make high-pitched rattles "like a hard wood stick scraped rapidly along a picket fence...
Many a U. S. citizen finds it difficult to dissociate barbershop singing from barroom. Not so the S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A. which rarely mixes liquor with its lyrics, explains simply: "A drunk can't sing." Equally proud is the society of the propriety of its songs, not one of which "you couldn't sing in Church...
Captain Billy has a cast of eight blond, un-Spanish-looking members who wash decks, sell tickets, move props as well as sing, dance, feed lines to Captain Billy on & off stage. Carmen opens with all hands singing Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here. Carmen is Billy's 18-year-old daughter Betty, who does a song and trucks to the jazzed-up Habanera while her mother pounds a little red piano. Captain Billy revised a scene in which Carmen consorts with smugglers in a cafe, made the chief smuggler a Greek restaurant proprietor, played by himself...
...make the nation's songs, the people who hum, whistle and sing them, the musicians who play them, last week made music that swelled and surged in a crescendo of patriotic feeling. As the sounds from millions of radios, home phonographs, jukeboxes soared over the seaboards, plains, mountains of the U. S., Walt Whitman might again have said, "I hear America singing." The U. S. was singing, as it had not done in years, of pride in its past, of hope in its future...