Word: singe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everybody Sing. When the union leaders looked mad enough to walk out, Dewey wondered out loud and apropos nothing: did they know where one of their leading union songs had come from? No? Well, on a trip to the South he once heard Negroes sing a spiritual, Jesus Is Our Leader. Later he told John L. Lewis about it and soon Lewis' miners were singing, "Lewis is our leader." The U.A.W. changed it to "Thomas" (for beefy R. J. Thomas, their president...
...amused, dismissed Claude Bourdet, new director general of French broadcasting. Also suspended was moonfaced Scriptwriter Jean Nocher, who complained: "I can't understand. I intentionally put all kinds of whoppers in it [so listeners would know it was a joke]. For instance, I made Catholics sing a Protestant hymn, Nearer, My God, to Thee...
...those who see little connection between his Benediction and its title, Lipchitz simply recalls the day on the road south from Paris when he made his first sketch of the harpist: "I was very mad, very anxious. This [sculpture] was a little song for Paris what I had to sing. It is like somebody goes to sleep. But sleep would bring cauchemar [nightmare], so I sing him a song that everything will come out all right. Maybe it is something that will make me feel better...
Bender's bulletin warns that students must return their orders within 30 days to 9 Weld Hall, and "sing the order as a receipt for items obtained. If this is not done, the student will become personally responsible for bills incurred...
Nellie Bly (book by Joseph Quillan; music by James Van Heusen; lyrics by Johnny Burke; produced by Nat Karson & Eddie Cantor) is the eighth musical in which breezy William Gaxton and quavery, befuddled Victor Moore (Of Thee I Sing, Louisiana Purchase) have been starred together. It may also be the last: they are considering turning over their respective talents to Hollywood. As a farewell party, Nellie Bly proves a pretty dismal frost; it even casts something of a blight on the guests of honor...