Word: singe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anticipating a swollen sing line of Harvard males, the Radcliffe dance committee, which includes Elinor Horn, Vivian Wolfe, Judith Fridberg, Mary Douglas, and Diana Mowrer, has arranged for mass exchange dances...
Married. Lieut. Cyril Patrick McCormack, son of plump, honey-voiced Tenor John McCormack; and Patricia Eccles; in Dublin. Tenor McCormack, now 56, emerged from "retirement" to sing two songs...
Three times he was put away in Sing Sing, to the widespread dismay of widows & orphans. But the clippings faded yellow and crumbly in newspaper morgues; the detectives who arrested him and the judges who sentenced him faded and crumbled too. In Brooklyn's once-tough, now tame Red Hook district, Steve Dutton has recently lived in a frame house with his two dogs, three cats (two of them 22 years old), and a 21 -ft. snake, preserved in formaldehyde, which he said he caught in Florida...
...bellowed at the court: "I'm as good a man as I was 50 years ago. Hit me on the chest! ... I can hold two men so they can't move. I ain't started yet." Magistrate Pinto ventured to mention his record: three times in Sing Sing...
...Night Before Christmas (by Sidney Joseph & Laura West Perelman, produced by Courtney Burr) is not a bedtime story. It is a mottled Sing Sing folk tale of a silver-haired confidence man past his prime and a slop-house plug ugly who pair up to crack a bank vault for Christmas. They buy a tired Manhattan luggage shop next door to the bank and start tunneling. Obstructed by unwanted customers, garrulous neighbors, former penmates, they dynamite, not the vault, but a nearby cafeteria, while Santa Claus stuffs their stocking with...