Word: singed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...custom to sing tenor in a church choir, it is also my custom to peruse the current issue of TIME when the service is other than musical, also it often happens that a young lady soprano reads over my shoulder with me, to our mutual profit...
...were degraded. The thing to do was find a menial job. You could be a "sweetback" (Negro gigolo). Taylor was not, but he was chauffeur, porter, valet. Later he toured with Circusman Ringling. But he was not satisfied. Something new was growing in him now-he wanted to sing the woes of his race. Like many a Negro he felt a queerly mixed hatred and love of his people...
Marianne (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). One of the most lamentable consequences of the singing pictures is Marion Davies. Here she is as a French girl in love with Stagg* of the A. E. F. One of the ablest clowns in the cinema she is forced to be sentimental. A skillful pantomimic, she has to talk continually, even sing. Unalterably Irish-American she wears peasant clothes and expresses herself in a language consisting of U. S. baby-talk combined with the foreign word cheri. A French soldier who has gone blind is the dramatic obstruction in her affair with Stagg. Best shot...
...boat in Manhattan last week. She said: "I weigh 120 pounds when I'm before the public and when I'm not it's nobody's business." She did not hurry out to Chicago for the great opening night, having contracted to sing in Philadelphia and Manhattan first. Her latest enthusiasm is one of Mr. Insull's "office boys," a young man named Hamilton Forrest who, unbeknownst to Mr. Insull, composed an opera and threw himself, as many other youths have done but without his languid charm, upon Miss Garden's bounty...
...outstanding numbers to be sung by the Harvard Glee Club when it appears in concert Thursday, December 12, at Symphony Hall in Boston, in conjunction with the Radcliffe Choral Society and 70 members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Under the direction of A. T. Davison '05, the Club will sing the Holst composition for the first time in Boston composition for the first time in Boston where the general public will be enabled to hear...