Word: singe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does nothing about raising any more money, the Smoker this April may revert to the old style, in vogue several years back, in which it was merely an occasion to get the whole class together, sing songs, and listen to addresses by Faculty members and prominent classmates. These parties were not at all musical variety shows, but provided a genial and entertaining evening at a very low cost...
When Composer Debussy had his opera nearly finished in 1901, he agreed that Maeterlinck's mistress, Georgette Leblanc, should be the first to sing Meélisande. But the director of the Paris Opéra Comique had other ideas: he chose a young singer from the U. S., Mary Garden. When Maeterlinck heard the news, he set off, cane in hand, to give Debussy a thrashing. He gave the composer no more than a fright, but wrote to Le Figaro wishing Pelléas et Meélisande "immediate and emphatic failure." It turned...
...this Ivory Tower optimism was the gloom of advertisers. Uncertain how the public was taking it all, they hoped their goods would not stagnate on their shelves. If that hope isn't realized, the war may end abruptly, since money will talk no matter what radio wants to sing...
...Esposito, 35, a long-nosed, horse-faced hoodlum who had been in & out of New York's prisons and reformatories for 16 years, had once been deported to Italy and sneaked back in. His brother William, 29, had robbed drunks, snatched pocketbooks, done a seven-year stretch in Sing Sing. Their father had served time for forgery. Their brother was in Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N. Y. for parole violation. Their lives had been spent in squalor, petty crime, prison and torpid, hard-eyed loafing...
Real-estate owners in Green Haven, N. Y. (pop. 38) found themselves on the verge of a boom that has nothing to do with defense. Reason: construction of a new $8,000,000 State prison (for Sing Sing overflow...