Word: sing
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...upstate New Yorker served ten years in the state legislature. He moved to Washington in 1945, held a variety of executive posts (e.g., E.G.A., Civil Defense) before joining Lodge. At the U.N., affable James Wadsworth was in steady demand at parties to strum his guitar and sing rich-baritone folk songs. Often he included a personal favorite, Stormy Weather, which he now, after two years of negotiating with the Russians, wryly calls "my disarmament song...
...house, arranged for an acquaintance of hers to work in the Selby home as a maid. One day Maggie went to his house to study the layout and plan the murder, found Wilma Selby at home, coolly sat down at the piano to play and sing a hymn, Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross. Wilma and the maid joined in the singing...
Besides keeping time by the foot, Seeger's audience was encouraged to snap a none-too-collective finger and sing a rich array of lyrics invoking unknown gods. The spectacle is reminiscent of a certain type of musical therapy now in vogue at various institutions across the country...
Soprano Farrell's first venture into popular recording occurs in a Columbia album titled I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues!-issued simultaneously with two other Farrell albums, a collection of Puccini arias and a recital featuring Schubert, Schumann, Debussy and Poulenc. Soprano Farrell was a jazz fan long before she became a serious singer-back in the days when she was getting vocal encouragement from her parents, who once toured the nation as "The Singing O'Farrells." In the '40s she used to sing the blues occasionally on radio shows...
...sincere." Magrina claims responsibility for having persuaded De los Angeles to leave Spain for the more lucra tive climate of La Scala and the Met. Today he handles all contract negotiations, has long since become inured to being addressed by his wife's name. Says he: "Victoria sings, but later she is the classic Spanish woman in her home. In private life, she is my wife, not I the consort of Victoria de los Angeles." ¶Belgrade-born Dragan Debeljevic, 39, abandoned plans for a career as an art and musical historian to guide the career of his wife...