Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leader Lansbury, when booed at a dockside meeting which seemed to want to sing "The Internationale," tried to restore order by joining in the song, managed to lead it and figured that afterward he would get a chance to speak. Instead he was booed out of the hall...
...sing a song, dance a bit or write a book, keep your feet on the ground. Too many of us in the ministry talk over our audiences." That was Dr. Joseph Fort Newton's thought when, three weeks ago, he began to syndicate a daily 500-word religious talk called "Everyday Religion," first feature of note since Rev. Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman went into pious colyumny. Famed liberal preacher, now co-rector of St. James's Protestant Episcopal Church in downtown Philadelphia, Dr. Newton had been solicited by General Manager Monte Bourjaily of United Feature Syndicate...
Fifty nine men will sing in the concert, including 12 first tenors, 15 second tenors, 16 baritones, and 16 basses. The men who will make the trip are:--first tenors: E. T. Clapp '35, E. E. Gaskill 2G., W. F. R. Haigh '33, Louis Harap 1G, W. H. Jewell 1L, H. G. Pearson, Jr. '34, N. H. Pollock, Jr. 1G, H. B. Sawyer, Jr. '36, Harold Schmidt 1G, E. L. Smith '34, F. B. Tolles '36, and J. A. Wilhelm '36; second tenors; J. G. Brooks '35, E. T. Canby '35, George Ehrenfreid '35, E. V. Ferguson '35, Frederick Fuller...
...quartet trials for new candidates, have been completed. Each man was required to sing three songs, which were given a rating by Dr. Davison, in order to decide which candidates would be allowed to participate in the concerts this year. Of the 125 men who tried out, 96 have been accepted. The other 29 aspirants have been placed on probation, and will be given another trial early next January, provided they attend the rehearsals until that time. On Tuesday trials for soloists will be held at 4.30 o'clock in the Music Building...
...Mobile, Detroit, Los Angeles. He never carried a gun, reports having been shot at only once, and that time the gun jammed. He had lots of fun with his job. At one German beer-garden, masquerading as a reveler, he made so much noise he was asked to sing a solo, which he did with great gusto. Then he announced: "This concludes the evening's entertainment, ladies & gentlemen. The place is pinched. For I am Izzy Einstein, the Prohibition Agent...