Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girl, a voice and some steak with mushrooms. It may sound like a weird combination, but some time ago this writer was taking a leave of absence in Boston, and happened to wander into the Raymor, where Larry Funk's band was playing. Someone was starting to sing "I Cried For You", but no one paid any attention until about three measures had passed. But those three measures and everything that came there-after made up some of the best jazz singing that I have ever heard--easy, unaffected, done with long, slow phrases like Mildred Bailey, yet with...
...forwards are concerned on the Freshmen team, it's really sing a song of six-pence, because the Yardlings are better fortified at that position than at any other. Joe Romano and Mike Rice form one forward duo, and Johnny Rigby teams with Will Webber on the other. These four men have divided the forward work almost exclusively among themselves...
Yale itself was a long time recognizing the greatness of Gibbs. But this year the university is making handsome amends by commemorating the 100th anniversary of his birth, and this week in New Haven a Gibbs dinner is being held to sing his praises. The celebrants at Yale reminded the world that although obstreperous strong men are making a lot of current news, it is for ''quiet people" that "history reserves some of its best places. Such a one was Josiah Willard Gibbs...
...cast taps, trucks, struts, shags in a way to make the white race gasp and give up. The swing finale to Act I-with the whole company whooping things up-provides the most animated ten minutes Broadway has seen since F.D.R. Jones in Sing Out the News. But after that, it is downhill...
...spirit, One For The Money offers Cafe Society what Pins and Needles offered workers and Sing Out the News offered New Dealers. Indeed, in holding the lorgnette up to Nature it makes Noel Coward, at times, seem like a proletarian writer...