Word: singe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Esty advertising agency. Barris sang in Pacific Coast joints and regularly played small parts in his friend Crosby's motion pictures. Mississippi Mud went out of general public hearing. But when the Rhythm Boys got together to rehearse last week's broadcast, they did not need to sing the number twice-after more than a decade, they knew it the first time, word for word...
...Gumyoji, as in every Japanese prison, there was a Buddhist priest of the Hongwanji sect - in charge of the library, observer of prisoners' behavior and recommender of shortened sentences. These priests also conduct Sunday services in which they sing hymns to tunes taken from the English hymnal, words altered to fit Buddhist doctrine ("Buddha loves me"). The priests exert a powerful influence and beatings never occur until after they have gone for the night...
Evergreen. Long after Honey Stromberg's death, she sang his song for Diamond Jim Brady at his oyster and beefsteak gorges at Bustanoby's. John D. Rockefeller once paid $500 to hear her sing it. In 1912, at a Weber & Fields reunion, when Lillian was 51 and over 170 lb., she was asked to do it again. As she broke, monumentally, into Come Down, My Evenin' Star, an audience including Arthur Brisbane, William Randolph Hearst, Diamond Jim Brady, Condé Nast and Charles Dana Gibson blubbered frankly over its boiled shirts...
...first rehearsal for the group, which is open to anyone who has the desire to sing, will be held jointly with the Radcliffe Choral Society Thursday at 7:30 o'clock in Sever...
...When I hear Frankie sing, I have to let go. . . . Mother's terribly worried and wants me to see a psychiatrist. I guess I better...