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Word: singe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stormy Weather | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

...Doing missionary work in Sing Sing Prison and boys' reformatories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Episcopalian Monks | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

...Explained Cinemactor Cooper: "My voice is such that I like to forget what I sing anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 13, 1945 | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: If You Knew Susie .. . | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

...Sunday Mr. Truman attended church services again and heard Staff Sergeant Francis K. Marshall, of Northumberland, Pa., sing: If With all Your Hearts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Potsdam Gleanings | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

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