Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Well, well, well, here you are!" was the loud greeting of the next President as he ground out his cigaret in an ash tray. "You've arrived just in time to see me sign the papers that commute the death sentence of one prisoner to life in Sing Sing and granting another condemned man a reprieve of three weeks...
Most Free State theatres suddenly stopped playing "The Soldiers' Song" last week. Patriotic audiences, accustomed to stand and sing it as the Free State's national anthem, demanded explanations. They were told that one Peter Kearney, by profession a housepainter but acknowledged to have composed "The Soldiers' Song" in his spare time, has hired lawyers. The lawyers are demanding a royalty fee for every time the national anthem is played. Last week Dublin's larger theatres defied Housepainter Kearney, continued to play "The Soldiers' Song," dared his lawyers...
Sentenced. Daniel J. O'Connell, 47, bankrupt investment banker; to five-to-ten years in Sing Sing Prison at hard labor; for having swindled Catholic priests and laymen of over $2,000,000 (TIME...
...genuine U. S. cinema star, with a high box office rating and a salary to match, it will be a most extraordinary turn of events. His appeal is essentially neither sentimental nor simian. In an era when Hollywood's other successful matinee idols either beat their women or sing to them, he personifies grace, intelligence, poise, wit. Son of a British actor, Herbert Marshall fitted himself, at St. Mary's College, to be an articled clerk. He did so poorly at it that he was forced to go on the stage. Just before the War he played with Cyril Maude...
...Sonata,"' best scene in Act II. is laid in the Munich Tierpark, a charming scene by Joseph Urban complete with the blue & white chevronings of Bavaria, caged ! parrots, romping children, elephants, a performing bear and good pastry. Still ; bent on their new amorous guests, the ! playwright tries to sing "One More Dance" to bewildered Sieglinde while his mistress out-howls him with "Night Flies By." for the benefit of timid Karl. Upshot of this sequence: The playwright puts Sieglinde in his new play, the mistress carries Karl off to Berlin. With much sympathy and good humor, Messrs Hammerstein & Kern...