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Word: singed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Monday, April 21, and Tuesday, April 22, approximately 100 members of the Harvard Glee Club will sing the chorus parts in Stravinski's "Oedipus Rex", which will be staged in New York City at that time. A tentative list of 60 names of those who will go down has been drawn up, and the persons notified. The Club has been rehearsing all fall, while letters from Stravinski have intimated that he will himself attend the rehearsals toward the end of February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB NAMES TENTATIVE LIST OF OEDIPUS REX SINGERS | 1/9/1931 | See Source »

...bully-boy who gets possession of a key to her apartment. The cast is not famous (Albert Frejean, Edmond Greville, Pola Illery), but they act so well that spectators do not have to understand French to follow the story. Best shot : the singer stimulating a crowd to sing while both men peddle their music in the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 29, 1930 | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

...luxuriance of Moscow was Yar's famed restaurant where gypsies sang and danced. A favorite at Yar's was Singer Nastia Poliakova whose deep, dark voice perfectly suited the purely emotional substance, the rambling, improvised style of gypsy songs. After the revolution Poliakova went to sing in a Paris cafe. This year she is in the U. S. to submit her informal, indefinable talent to the test of formal concerts. Manhattan liked her so much that last week she gave a second pro gram there, announced a third. Two of her best songs: "Odor of Lilacs," "What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gypsy Singer | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

Recent news stories have illustrated the evils of third degree. On Nov. 26 Joseph Barbado, who had been sent to the death house at Sing Sing prison last December on a third degree confession of murder, was released almost at the eleventh hour. -En. D. A. C.'s Beasley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 22, 1930 | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

...followed him when he went ashore to dinner with Dr. Paul Schwarz, the German consul; when he had luncheon with Adolph Simon Ochs, publisher of the New York Times; when he spoke on Zionism over the radio, when he went to the Metropolitan Opera House to hear Maria Jeritza sing Carmen; when he was escorted to City Hall by Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler to shake hands with wisecracking little Mayor Walker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: He Is Worth It | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

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