Word: singe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the conference, members of the university and their families have been invited to attend a special musical program at the Memorial Church. The Harvard Glee Club will sing, under the direction of G. Wallace Woodworth, professor of Music...
...originality. However, in my mind, an overdose of riff tunes will generally have a discouraging effect on jazz musicians. Any competent arranger can pick up a few old blues licks and build a tune around them, and a competent band will play it and the Andrews Sisters will sing it and high-school jitterbugs all over the country will dance to it, and two months later it will be forgotten. It's the casiest thing in the world for a good dance orchestra to get itself into a musical rut by doing just this thing. Tommy Dorsey is a good...
Nature had done nothing dramatic for Mr. Chamberlain. He was tall and stringy, with the distinction of being the only British statesman who could sing Negro spirituals (learned as a young man when he was trying to raise sisal in the Bahamas), and the biggest feet in the Cabinet. He also had gout and bunions. Clement Attlee once said that Chamberlain's smile reminded him of the silver handles of a coffin. A kindlier woman said his eyes were "cold and smiling, like a Scandinavian river...
...Among inmates of Sing Sing who were given "special privilege" to listen to radioed election returns: Tammany Hall's James J. Hines; New York Stock Exchange's Richard Whitney...
...have ever had the desire to own a town and be the Postmaster, Mayor, School Board, Chief of Police, High Constable, Nightclub Host, Sunday-School Teacher, Fire Chief, Theatrical Director, Athletic Coach, Gas-Station Attendant, Promoter of Beauty Contests, and operate the General Store . . . please wake up and sing for there's some one knocking at your Side Door...