Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Just listen to the little Fascist sing! Have we a budding Hitler in our midst, or is Howard R. Anderson of Cornell University spoofing TIME...
...daughter of "Syd" Farrar, who played first base for the old Phillies, Geraldine was born in the little town of Melrose, Mass. In Manhattan, where she went to study, she was offered a chance to sing small parts at the Metropolitan. But Soprano Farrar wanted a big chance; she refused, went to Europe to continue her studies. At 19 she was already an admired figure in European opera. At the Metropolitan, when she returned famous, she rubbed arias for 16 consecutive seasons with such famed songsters as the late Enrico Caruso and Antonio Scotti, she sang some 29 roles, played...
...Dionne disdain for story values and decorum is only less marked than their disdain for their public which, in Five of a Kind, is most apparent when they are called upon to render the simple little nursery ballad, Freère Jacques. The Dionnes are so impudent as to sing it in five different keys, squealing and chuckling as they do so. Throughout the rest of the picture they amuse themselves by a sleepy race on rocking horses, frightening five cocker spaniel puppies and misbehaving at the tea table. To an outsider the only plausible excuse for the Dionnes...
...Angeles' Angelus Temple, Evangelist Aimee ("Dear Sister") Semple McPherson romped out in front of her congregation appropriately dressed as a milkmaid, carrying a glistening pail brimful of milk. Pals and paid hands on the stage were treated to drinks. When the pail was empty, Sister Aimee began to sing (see cut), then took up a collection, dumped it in the pail...
...swore that if she possibly could she would appear at the Ball tomorrow night in spite of the tailoring and pruning and late rehearsals that accompany the opening of a big musical comedy. She also said she would sing some of the songs which are rumored to be titillating the auricular appendages of Beacon Hill audiences...