Word: singe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Minnie Guggenheimer found a silver-lined way through the clouds. She arranged two post-season "benefit" concerts, and persuaded her 80 musicians to play for nothing. Then she signed Grace Moore to sing, and New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, ever willing to put on a show, to conduct The Stars and Stripes Forever.* To her fans, she confided: "The Mayor's going to decorate Miss Moore. I really don't know with what. ..." When uproarious applause interrupted her, she scolded: "I think you're all just dreadful people...
...Doing missionary work in Sing Sing Prison and boys' reformatories...
...Explained Cinemactor Cooper: "My voice is such that I like to forget what I sing anyway...
...carrying a pint-sized harp, skipped to the platform and hopped to a high yellow-leathered stool. A white spot picked up a white face, surrounded by carrot hair which fell halfway to the girl's waist. Said she: "This is an Irish harp. With it I will sing you a very tiny song...
...Sunday Mr. Truman attended church services again and heard Staff Sergeant Francis K. Marshall, of Northumberland, Pa., sing: If With all Your Hearts...