Word: singe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government's star witness: Shake down Expert Willie Bioff, who was let out of jail to sing on his ex-chums. Dapper, wily Willie, nothing loath, sat calmly in a swivel-chair, hands clasped meditatively over his stomach - and sang...
Freedom of Speech is easier to talk about than responsibility of speech. As if to prove that they could sing as eloquently of freedom as any editorial writer, the Justices hymned...
...years Enrico Caruso carried on a feud against his native Naples. In 1901, after his early European successes, the Neapolitans hissed him. Caruso vowed he would never sing in Naples again, would visit his home only "to eat a plate of spaghetti." He kept his vow. During World War I he was begged to sing at Naples' San Carlo opera house for a Red Cross benefit. Caruso wrote a check for 50,000 lire, but refused to sing...
...encounters an orating windbag, Mr. Speakeasy, M.P., whose booming platitudes about freedom from want fail to interest the pensive soldier. He is also unmoved by the frenzied screechings of Mr. Escapegoat, the diplomat, and the Rev. Hateman, the cleric, who unite in a Vansittart diatribe about German savagery and sing a duet: "The Germans are not the Herrenvolk. We are the Herrenvolk...
Peacetime Ramadan in Egypt had children, rich and poor, wandering from house to house swinging red and green lanterns from poles, singing for candy and food. "Joy, oh joy," they would sing, "the Sultan's daughter is wearing a robe of bright scarlet red, bright lemon yellow. Oh, give to me as is your custom, and a very happy New Year to you." Now there is war: parents will not let their children out in the blackout; villagers do not like to give away any of their expensive, rationed food...