Word: singe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lyle Ring will direct the Simmons College Glee Club of fifty voices, the two soloists in the "Stabat Mater," and an a capella group of 14 voices, which will sing the other solos...
Died. AbdelKader, 88, painter, whose grandfather, Hussein, Dey of Algiers, fled his throne after swatting the French consul with a fly- whisk in 1827 ; after long illness; in Atlantic City. Brought to the U. S. in 1902 by the late Oscar Hammerstein to sing in grand opera, he squandered a $200,000 inheritance, fractured his skull in a train wreck, and, down & out, became an Atlantic City character, lived for the last eleven years rent-free in a corner of one of the municipal airport hangars...
...World War I, France's favorite song was the lilting Madelon. The first seven months of World War II produced no successor. One try, Victoire, Daughter of Madelon, was a by-blow which died aborning. For the honor of the Republic, and to give French soldiers something to sing, a contest was held which brought in 484 war songs. Twenty jurors winnowed the songs down to 20, which were sung for ten days to the Paris public. Last week the votes were in. Soldiers' votes counted five; civilians' one. All jingo songs were quickly eliminated: the winners...
Sentiments of the song: The general who commands our army is a real daddy to all us soldiers. In his honor a pal in the trenches wrote this song which we all sing: (chorus). Lately the President of the Republic with his dear better half came to camp. Both of them, carried away by the music sang with us, arm-in-arm: (chorus...
There is Ann Sheridan, of course. Well, what is there to say? Ann is not a great girl. She cannot act. She cannot dance. She cannot sing. It stands to reason that, when she is required to act, dance, and sing through a whole picture, the out-come is not happy. That is not all. Ann completely fails to demonstrate that she is the Earth Mother on Wheels, the Great American Mistress which she is cracked up to be. She is downright disappointing...