Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...near Cincinnati, they held a business meeting. Morris Riley, in charge of arrangements, explained that they didn't need to worry about formal clothes. Morris said: "Captain Truman told us that we could go anywhere so long as we wore shoes." They practiced a parody of Tipperary to sing to Captain Truman: "Up from Jackson County came a county judge one day. He worked into the White House of this grand old U.S.A...
Dark-eyed Elena Nikolaidi, assured and lovely in a pale taffeta gown, stepped out on the stage of Manhattan's Town Hall, composed her hands and began to sing. Her voice, ranging from a mellow low contralto to a brilliant mezzo-soprano, glided through songs by Gluck, Haydn, Schubert, Rossini, Mahler, Ravel and De-Falla; the performance came to an end with the Sleep-Walking Scene from Verdi's Macbeth. The audience shuffled their programs to look at the name again. Thirtyish Elena Nikolaidi, making her U.S. debut and almost unknown outside Athens and Vienna, had achieved...
From the time she was eight, and singing small solo parts in a little church in a suburb of Athens, she had heard nice things about her voice. The directors of the Athens Conservatory heard her sing when she was 15, gave her six years' free training. In 1936 Bruno Walter gave her work at the Vienna State Opera, and she has been on the Vienna roster ever since. Last October she returned to Athens, sang Carmen eight times in two weeks...
...Bolero. Surgeon Ivanissevich is also a singer. Last month, traveling with the presidential party on a long, dusty train ride back to the capital from the interior, Evita Perón said: "Ivan, why don't you sing us a bolero?" The courtly, white-suited, white-tied Secretary dug out a guitar, swung into a popular number called Luna Lunera...
Matter dare not sing-Man is a spirit...