Word: singe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...your feather for the game, and, if you're lucky, see the same With bright blue feathers for the game (and oh, so near to Vassar) And while they're looking for the ball the leader, though he's very small And no one else can sing at all, will sing a song for Vassar...
...finished, much to his and the congregation's astonishment, Miss Abbott arose in the audience, made a spirited defense of herself and the theater, then walked out. Dr. Candler, in a dignified tone said: "I will not reply to the lady, as she is a lady. Let us sing Rock of Ages...
...against it. He was against tobacco, alcohol, coffee, tea, corsets, cocoa, ginger ale, sirloin steak, vaccination, capital punishment, Tammany Hall and artificially flavored lollipops. He could spot a cocoa drinker at 20 paces by the "yellow eyes and degenerate skin." Once he weaned a Sing Sing death-house prisoner from tobacco, several days before execution. During World War I he wired President Wilson that coffee would prevent U.S. soldiers from shooting straight, and ought to be forbidden them...
...still able to take such heterodoxy-from Winston Churchill. He is, after all, an Old Harrovian himself, a present day "Glory on the Hill." Harrow's Headmaster A. Paul Boissier writes that he has been told that often "on occasions when affairs looked overblack, Mr. Churchill . . . would sing an appropriate verse or two from one of the [Harrow] songs and then get back to business." Recently the Harrovians have given Old Harrovian Churchill a new stanza to the old Stet Fortuna Domus to sing if he wishes...
...Mayor Hylan as a "Canadian beauty." Promptly signed up by Billy Rose as singer for a small hotspot, she couldn't make herself heard or seen until the late, great Ring Lardner boosted her to the top of a piano. After that, she always sat on one to sing her husky blues, wistfully twisting her handkerchief, managing to look waifishly beautiful...