Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...membership which has included Holmeses, Lowells, Belmonts, Adamses, Roosevelts, Bonapartes, Carrolls, Lodges. Its club house on Massachusets Avenue overlooks the Yard. Porcellian's favorite beverage was Golden Gate, a concoction of equal parts of gin and beer. At club dinners all members must be primed to sing solo...
Fifteen years ago newspaper critics were referring to the "inexhaustible Jerome Kern." They had in mind such songs as "They Didn't Believe Me," written in hobble-skirt-times for Donald Brian and pretty Julia Sanderson to sing when they could keep their feet still long enough in The Girl from Utah. "Till the Clouds Roll By" and "An Old-Fashioned Wife" in Oh Boy! followed, then "The Sun Shines Brighter" and "Sirens' Song" in Leave It to Jane, then "Babes in the Wood" in Very Good, Eddie. Matinee audiences were wearing Castle clips and suede-top boots...
...Large Living Room downstairs, there will be no dancing, but a professional pianist and crooner will play and sing requested selections throughout the evening. Upstairs a prominent accordion artist will entertain in the Common Room. In addition, a couple playing the violin and guitar will stroll through the building entertaining those who are not dancing...
Mechanically, "20,000 Years in Sing Sing" is well done. In a lesser man, one would be induced to charge that the book was little more than an excuse to string together, with as much continuity as possible, numerous interesting stories. But Lawes reveals himself the master of a racy, journalistic style, which admits gracefully the predominance of illustration by anecdote. The one fault of the book is small but glaring; the ghoulishly sensational description of an electrocution, inserted as a prologue, is neither necessary nor illuminating. One prefers to believe that it can be blamed on the publishers. Aside...
...Morris Ryskind, co-author with George Kaufman of the 1931 Pulitzer Prize play "Of Thee I Sing," goes the credit for having dug up "The Diary of an Ex-President" which Minton, Balch & Company recently released. It is the private diary of former President John P. Wintergreen and was discovered by Mr. Ryskind in the new subway on Eighth Avenue. Mr. Wintergreen will be remembered as the President who was elected on a Platform of Love in "Of Thee I Sing...