Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith declined to sing his theme song, The Sidewalks of New York. But he joined Commissioner Moses, Mayor LaGuardia and the other two judges in rendering Sweet Adeline, sourly...
...kept Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from making a really good musical revue since the original Broadway Melody (1929), is forgotten, with happy results, in the present version. The proceedings evidently must have cost a lot of money and some pains but the result is pleasant entertainment. The people who sing and dance are not film stars who have learned some routines to appear in a musical but troupers who have made themselves famed as singers and dancers...
...sharply, made the munitions buying Dictator wince at the vast, invisible potency of London financiers. If any sneak up the Blue Nile was started it was a genuine sneak. Comfortable Punch cartooned a musical comedy interlude in which Dame France and John Bull, wagging their fingers at II Duce, sing: We don't want you to fight But, by jingo, if you do, We shall probably issue a joint memorandum suggesting a mild disapproval of you! All this seemed less funny this week as Greeks reported that a fleet of British bombing planes had swept over their islands bound...
...High School in Calgary have regarded bald, square-shouldered Principal William Aberhart as a good, inspiring man. They have seen his Prophetic Bible Institute grow from milk & sandwich evenings at his home into its present $65,000 plant & structure. Seldom does Mr. Aberhart address Albertans without first having them sing Our God, Our Help in Ages Past and he always closes with a heartfelt prayer. To the sturdy citizens of the Pioneer Province (with Saskatchewan last to enter the Dominion of Canada) a final seal of goodness was set on William Aberhart last week by the fact that he himself...
...remain silent and enter no discussion. They noted with upped eyebrows that Dr. Gurtner called explicitly for "severity in the treatment of prisoners so that the punishment may be appropriate to the evil." This German reversion to an eye for an eye & a tooth for a tooth caused Sing Sing Warden Lewis E. Lawes to break the delegates' self-imposed rule of silence. "I certainly disagree," said Mr. Lawes, "with any policy of taking vengeance on prisoners...