Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discontented; it is another name for ambition. Be selfish; don't work for the professors. Be disobedient; do not believe everything you are told. Be lazy and fond of music, books, impracticable flowers and the birds that sing, though there be no ear to hear...
...whom Washington officialdom knew and loved best. About him in his Massachusetts Avenue home his friends constantly gathered informally. A thorough musician (he had a standing order for new compositions from the Library of Congress), he would play on the violin, the organ or the piano. Then he would sing old college ballads, sentimental ditties or long songs for men only. His favorite stories were Elizabethan. He maintained active membership in the Royal & Joyous Fellowship of Elbow-benders. He doted on doggerel. Example...
Inmates of the Maine State Prison rioted this month when their letter-writing privileges were curtailed (TIME, April 6). In Manhattan last week. Commissioner Bernard J. Fagan of the New York State Division of Parole told a Welfare Council meeting that "through correspondence, prisoners [at Sing Sing] join matrimonial agencies and sometimes have replies from women all over the nation, many of them splendid women. . . . The prisoners give only the street address of the prison in Ossining and often elaborate on the views from the windows and the beauty of the Hudson River. . . . The unsuspecting feminine reader enjoys the letter...
Policeman. As a result of Mr. Seabury's police investigation, last week one member of the vice squad, Policeman Sydney D. Tait, was sentenced to from two and one-half to five years in Sing Sing for perjury...
...first U. S. stage performances of the Oedipus Rex of Composer Igor Stravinsky, an opera-oratorio with a text recast by Frenchman Jean Cocteau, then Latinized. Oedipus Rex will be repeated April 21 and 22 at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, the only difference being that Harvard youths will sing the choruses instead of the Prince ton Glee Club. A sound film was made of the Philadelphia dress rehearsal. The Manhattan performance of April 21 will be broadcast, the first performance ever to be radioed from the Metropolitan Opera...