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Word: singe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADCLIFFE THROWS HOP TO SWELL WAR RELIEF | 5/7/1941 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 5, 1941 | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sinner Emeritus | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sinner Emeritus | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

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