Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sequel to the scandalous failure of City Trust Co. for $5,000,000 in Manhattan in 1929, a shifty-eyed little man of 62 last week entered Sing-Sing Prison to start a five-to-ten year sentence (TIME, Feb. 25, 1929). He was Frank H. Warder. As New York State Superintendent of Banks, he had taken a $10,000 bribe to delay an examination of the bank which would have-disclosed its fiscal rottenness. A Court of Appeals ruling that the evidence of his guilt was "overwhelming" ended his 14 months of legal dodging...
...Paris and back when automobiles were practically unknown. After Lucia they changed their minds. Lily Pons, they found out then, was not big-chested and chunky like most Lucias. She was fragile-appearing as befits an opera heroine who must die of grief, graceful, chicly costumed. Her first singing was uneven but after villainous Lord Ashton (Baritone Giuseppe de Luca) had driven her to her wits' end with his connivings against her lover (Tenor Beniamino Gigli) she found her stride. The Mad Scene, given in the key of F instead of a tone lower as is usually the case...
...incidental song once and had a small success. She set to work, within a year made her debut in Mulhouse, Alsace. Three years later she was summering in Verona with the Zenatellos, building her weight up to 105 pounds, preparing costumes and studying the roles she was engaged to sing her first year at the Metropolitan. Fortunately she was spared the Chamber of Commerce ballyhoo which spoiled Colora tura Marion Talley. After her debut Talley found herself in shoes too big for her but she became high-handed nevertheless, refused advice, in three years was out of the Metropolitan. Coloratura...
...produced, read, debated. Finally the Watch Committee decided that roguish Maurice may not sing in Cardiff...
Undaunted, he went on to Brighton. "In Brighton," proudly declared a civic alderman, "any man can sing anything - well almost anything - in any language he knows...