Word: singe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Romig doesn't care for God Bless America he will not be compelled to sing it. ... Almost every veterans' outfit and Minute Men organization in the land open their meetings with it. ... Portland (Ore.) used it for the floral theme of its annual Rose Festival. ... It is played at all Brooklyn Dodgers home games, at the midget auto races at Castle Hill Stadium in The Bronx, at bingo games, and it was a standout feature of the President's birthday balls.... At Sheboygan, Wis., a local ordinance makes it a must at all band concerts along with...
...strike at the State Capitol in Sacramento. But Betty didn't like that. This is her story: "I decided we weren't gonna go on relief in Sacramento. So Ilene [her younger sister] and me worked out a plan to make some money. We figured we could sing as good as some of those people on the radio, so we started singin' on street corners. We did purty good. Then we got the idea of singin' at banquets, like the Chamber of Commerce and the gas company and all them other companies that give big feeds...
...They knew: Vito Gurino, 33, ex-baker, top trigger man of the Brooklyn syndicate of small-time gunmen who, at bargain-basement prices (TIME, April 1), murdered underworld characters for rival gangs. They had been looking for him. Two of his bosses were in the death house at Sing Sing, two more were on trial, others awaiting trial for their part in the 83 murders chalked up against the syndicate by Irish William O'Dwyer, Brooklyn District Attorney...
...Dwyer got an earful. At the close of a 15-hour session the squat gunman had confessed to three murders, implicated himself in four more. On one shooting expedition he had been with Harry ("Happy") Maione and Frank ("The Dasher") Abbandando, now awaiting the electric chair at Sing Sing. They had polished off two members of a plasterers' union asleep in their apartment. They also shot the plasterers' bulldog. Once, for diversion, Gurino and four other gorillas abducted a nightclub singer, took her to a vacant lot and raped her. They didn't kill her. They gave...
...villagers get power from the community hydroelectric plant, recreation in the commu nity's $60,000 public hall, where Metlakatla's 60-piece band sometimes plays of an evening. On Sundays Metlakatlans go to their shining white churches (one Duncanite, one Presbyterian), sing and praise the Lord for their happy...