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Word: singe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right. The horse, a splendid specimen of white charger from the Ben Hur Stables, succeeded repeatedly in bringing down the house. On several occasions as his rider, Tenor Armand Tokatyan, soared toward a top note, the animal turned a ripely expressive backside to the audience and obliged Tokatyan to sing squarely into the scenery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Nose and the Thumb | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...broke bones and beat drums. He played football, was on the third varsity crew. He was theater critic for the Yale News. As "The Meyer Davis of Yale," he organized some five dance bands, one of which he took on 22 Atlantic crossings. One night he heard Tito Schipa sing an aria and decided to be an opera singer. By 1936 he wangled an au dition at the Metropolitan, but when he discovered the small size of his starting salary, he gave in to an offer to appear in the Elsa Maxwell-Leonard Sillman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 6, 1943 | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

Patrice Munsel has a contract to sing this winter with Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera (she won the Met Auditions of the Air last spring). But after that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: $120,000 Voice | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

...studied in Germany as a young woman, gave recitals years ago in both London and Manhattan. What Perla calls her "wharfside work" began three years ago when she was seeing off a young Irish seaman her family had entertained the day before. Across the water he yelled: "Please sing something Irish." Through cupped hands, Perla obliged with When Irish Eyes Are Smiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lady in White | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

...arrange with the H. A. A. for a game Tuesday to bring out the men, because nothing else seems to fill practices. The eleven would still have a better than even chance against Yale, however, if the Glee Club were not pulling half the front line out to sing for the Smith girls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE BOOTERS HERE NOV. 20 | 11/12/1943 | See Source »

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