Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Murder- It would be a strange jury, thought Prosecutor Foley, which would not convict on these facts. But an extortion verdict with a possible sentence of 20 years in Sing Sing was only the secondary motive behind the District Attorney's elaborately constructed case. His main idea war to keep Bruno Richard Hauptmann in penal storage until New Jersey could gather evidence, extradite and indict for murder...
...Stadium exercises on Friday will open at 3 P. M. with a grand entry parade of the entire Italian student body of 340 men, accompanied by the Harvard band and preceded by Italian trumpeters. They will march to the center of the Stadium, according to present plans, and sing the Facist song. This will take about thirty minutes time after which the track meet proper will start...
Unlike most importations, Gaumont-British's version of the comic operetta which ran at His Majesty's Theatre in London from 1915 to 1920, in Manhattan from 1917 to 1919, is at least intelligible to U. S. cinemaddicts. Its actors muffle their accents, sing with no more affectation than U. S. musicomedy performers. Prepared without either the gross exaggerations of a DeMille or the onyx convolutions of a Busby Berkeley, Chu Chin Chow is elaborate without being absurd. It relates the story of Ali Baba (George Robey) and the 40 thieves, exhibits the misfortunes which overtake the head...
Daughter of a Chinese laundryman named Sam Sing Tsong, Anna May Wong's real name is Wong Liu Tsong (Frosted Yellow Willows). She grew up on Flower Street in Los Angeles' chop-suey section, attended Los Angeles Central High School. Her ambition to become an actress sprouted when she caught sight of the late Alma Rubens in an elevator. Sam Sing Tsong objected when his daughter got extra jobs on location scenes in Chinatown. Was it not true that every time a picture is taken, its subject loses part of his soul? Nonetheless, Anna May Wong carried...
...song she likes to sing on the old chapel step...