Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parody of 'Hiawatha' by Lewis Carroll, and other esoteric nonsense-verse. The Dunster House Matron of Morsels will entertain as black-face comedienne, in her inimitable interpretations of 'mammy' songs. By popular request the Senior Tutor will cast aside academic dignity as a concession to the holiday season, and sing that famous and lachrymose lyric of the frigid Forties, entitled 'Father's a Drunkard and Mother's Dead, or Poor Little Bessie's Plea for Bread...
First Night. The idea behind this mystery play is far too ingenious for the job of play writing that Frederick Rath has given it. The audience are asked to consider themselves visitors at Sing Sing prison who have been invited to witness the tryout of a new drama. Among the spectators is "Governor Moore" (onetime Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith was there on the opening night) and "Warden Ross." Although the Governor repeatedly tries to have the show stopped, the warden and a young woman whose brother is sentenced to be electrocuted next day persuade him to see the thing...
...Some day," said he, "I hope I shall be able to sing a Te Deum in the great cathedral of St. Stephen...
Above the execution chamber of Sing Sing Prison, in a small room comfortably furnished and brightly decorated, a grey old man lay sick abed last month. Because he had often before been "good copy," Manhattan newspapers reported him "dying." But prison officials said it was not so bad as that. He had failed considerably, they said. His rheumatism was much worse. They had tried to move him to the prison hospital. But his sunken grey-green eyes had blazed refusal...
Chapin took no interest in his trial or in the formidable defense counsel, headed by George Woodward Wickersham, whom the court appointed. He pleaded guilty, took a sentence of 20-years-to-life. Immediately Prisoner Chapin was made editor of the Sing Sing Bulletin. At the instance of Author Basil King he wrote his book, Charles Chapin's Story. But the real substance of his prison life has been his gardening. First with his tobacco money, later with outside help (including a check every month from onetime Reporter Cobb), he set out his beautifully landscaped plots...