Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Standing on the Capitol steps with Father Cox, Senator James John Davis and Representative Clyde Kelly of Pennsylvania received the army's petition for "the God-given right to work," heard them swear allegiance to the flag and sing "America," "Keep The Home Fires Burning," "Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag." Their petition was read to House and Senate that afternoon...
Zimbalist had just arrived in the U. S. (1911) when he met Soprano Alma Gluck. She was standing at the prow of a ferryboat, on her way to sing in New Jersey. Some one spoke to her and she turned around to see Zimbalist standing there with a great wide smile wrinkling up his homely face. For three years thereafter he hung around the Metropolitan Opera stage door while she insisted that she was not interested in marrying again, that it would not be becoming for her to marry a man younger than herself. Finally she surrendered, and there began...
...nine years, said Director Schuengel, the line tried to get larger accommodations in Manhattan for its big new ship. An early offerer of his good offices was Mayor Walker's German-American friend, David Maier, who used to be a brothel-keeper until he was sent to Sing Sing for trying to tamper with a witness in a legislative investigation (TiME, Sept. 14). Ex-Convict Maier procured $500 from N. G. L. to give to a sheriff who was politically influential among the city's transplanted Teutons. Then Maier said he needed another $2,500 to swing...
...Thee I Sing is the drollest, merriest musical nonsensity to come down the theatrical pike this season. There is good reason for it to be. The book is a product of wry George S. Kaufman (Once in a Lifetime }. The music, which rises at times to the antiphonal absurdity which he first provided for Strike Up the Band, is by gifted George Gershwin. Brother Ira, who with Brother George recently made an excursion into the cinema (see p. 19), has packed the lyrics full of foolishness and funny rhymes. Handsome William Gaxton and Lois Moran of the films, looking...
...denied that Frida Leider had able assistance from a good cast that included René Maison as Parsifal and Alexander Kipnis as Gurnemanz. from Maestro Egon Pollak's orchestra, from a reverent audience that had bought every one of the 75?-$4 seats.* But so well did she sing & act that most of those who saw & heard her were far more interested in Kundry's screaming, crawling, writhing, seducing, sobbing than in the allegory of Parsifal's redemption of the world...