Word: singe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing he and his two shipmates noticed was that the builders had neglected to put seats and oarlocks in the rowboat. They drifted helplessly away with the current. The rowboat leaked. The three men bailed, shouted for help, signaled with a flashlight. They drifted close under the walls of Sing Sing prison, but no one saw them...
Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!, gave it to his vocalist, little Bonnie Baker, to sing. Five months ago, with Band Leader Tucker's band, Vocalist Baker recorded it. So melting and cajoling were diminutive Bonnie's "Oh !s" (Chicago jitterbugs quickly changed the text to "Oh Bonnie, Oh!") that her record was soon jerking juke-box nickels faster than the fading Beer Barrel Polka (TIME, Sept. 11). Last week, with 350,000 sheet-music copies and some 350,000 records sold to date, the revived Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh! was nudging South of the Border for first place...
Last month, with the help of Horace Johnson, head of Manhattan's Federal Music Project, New York City's musical Mayor LaGuardia decided to bring Wagner to the man-of-the-street. Engaging such top-flight Metropolitan Wagnerians as Lauritz Melchior, Elisabeth Rethberg and Friedrich Schorr to sing with WPA's New York City Symphony, he sponsored a series of Wagner concerts at Rockefeller's Center Theatre. Seats: 25? to $1. So successful were the concerts that last week Mayor LaGuardia and Director Johnson decided to repeat their venture, this time with Tschaikowsky's music...
...make the recording but would like very much for her favorite Governor to get the road fixed going up to her farm [in Newtown, Conn.] from the main road. ... I am sure Miss Moore would not only make the recording for Governor Baldwin, but would go out and sing to everybody, 'He Should Be President...
...execution chamber at Sing Sing prison, on a fine June morning in 1904, a lanky, 30-year-old electrician named Robert Greene Elliott (son of a New York farmer who had intended him for the Methodist ministry) was testing current and equipment. With him was Executioner Davis. "Bob," said Davis casually, "I want you to throw the switch on one of the fellows this morning." Young Elliott turned hollow inside. "I've got to train two men to be executioners," Davis explained rapidly...