Word: singe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pitcher and whipping the ball around the infield after each out. It is reminiscent of Disney's "How to Play Baseball" of four years ago, one of the funniest cartoons ever released. In "Willie the Whale" Nelson Eddy does a commendable job of both the narration and the singing in this story of the whale who could sing grand opera...
...people tried their best to sing Vienna's lustige Lieder (jolly songs), but it was not easy. A current favorite revival was "In the Prater the trees bloom again," but few Viennese could sing it without remembering that their Prater amusement park was a mass of charred plaster and twisted steel...
...after a ten-week journalistic junket through the U.S. and Canada, gave Izvestia readers an outsize report on America and Americans. Highlights: "Everything . . . is different - cities, trees and customs. . . . I have been to dinners and meetings. First every body hurriedly chews chicken, then orators make long speeches, then singers sing sentimental songs, then a priest collects money for some benevolent fund. . . ." Ehrenburg said that he ran into one group of "provincial dummies . . . convinced that with the help of Esperanto they could make the atomic bomb harmless." But he had great admiration for America's "astonishing technique" of manufacturing...
...years great divas have smeared their ample bodies with cocoa-colored grease paint or pancake make-up to sing Aïda, Giuseppe Verdi's Ethiopian princess. This week, an Aïda didn't have to bother. In Mexico City's Opera National the role was sung by Ellabelle Davis, a U.S. Negress...
...Rochelle, 16 miles from New York City, where she was a grocer's daughter, Ellabelle Davis used to sing hymns in the church choir on Sundays. Weekdays she hummed arias as she sewed for Westchester County suburbanites in the Mattie Bowe Dressmaking Establishment. While pinning a dress on a customer one day, she sang the Depnis le Jour aria from Gustave Charpentier's Louise, an opera whose heroine is a seamstress. The customer, Louise Crane, paper mill heiress, daughter of Massachusetts' late wealthy Governor Winthrop Murray Crane, offered to finance her voice lessons...