Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graduated to blackmail, stock swindles, fraud, rumrunning. By the garish '20s he had a yacht, rolls of thousand-dollar bills, a long police record, a beauteous consort (Helen Patterson Heywood, who divorced her husband for him). Last week, friendless, feeble, finished, 59-year-old Dapper Don went to Sing Sing to serve 15 to 30 years. His crime: a piddling swindle. Said he: "I've been around, but today I'm just an old reprobate...
Leggy Jessie Matthews used to sing and high kick reel after reel. In Climbing High she sings little, dances less, takes on her unobtrusive chin a custard pie and a messier plot. Britain reports that Jessie intends quitting cinema for good, sticking to the musicomedy stage...
This week NBC hoped it had hit upon the right medicine-Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, a 70-man band of glittering trumpetry, up-to-date stomp and freestyle, everybody-sing chorusing. Main reason that Fred Waring is considered a likely antidote to Amos 'n' Andy is that his orchestra has always played to the whole crowd, has never gone too hot or too sweet for catholic tastes. Says Fred: "If anything looks good...
...While the food lasted, moreover, the official orders in the clinic were that the children had to sing the Franco Nationalist songs before they were fed," said Mr. Cope. "We never asked them to sing Loyalist songs when the Loyalists held that territory, and we do not now like to ask them to sing Nationalist songs in thanksgiving for our food...
Marriage Disclosed. Lewis Edward Lawes, 55, Sing Sing Prison's warden and a widower since 1937; and Elise Chisholm, 35, theatrical agent; last April; in Arlington...