Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunday, the Cardinal, reported in "protective custody," celebrated Mass while Storm Troopers and police guarded the Cathedral and palace. At night the Nazis, who blamed the rioting on "irresponsible elements" and "Communists," permitted hundreds of Hitler Youth to mill in the square, beat drums and sing while Catholics attended evening service...
...Manhattan last week Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt went to the theatre two nights in succession. Of Sing Out the News, Harold Rome's pro-Roosevelt revue, she remarked: "It is rather kind to certain prominent political figures." At Lightnin' Playgoer Roosevelt went behind the scenes, congratulated Fred Stone, who plays the leading role. Grinned Actor Stone: "Thank you, dear...
...Bursting with this glorious coincidence, Metropolitan Opera Stars Elisabeth Rethberg and Ezio Pinza exploded into super-canary song. Ex-Opera Star Beniamino Gigli, who left the Metropolitan in a huff six years ago when it threatened to cut his pay, and who was returning to the U. S. to sing on the radio, could not wait either. While stewards gasped, he gave everything he had to "Where Do You Worka John? On the Delaware Lacka...
Pert, jaunty, ingenious, fast as a pickpocket's fingers, slick as a chorus boy's hair, Sing Out the News has the look of a knockout revue. Yet that is chiefly a tribute to its direction. The satire is goofy but glib, the jokes are neat rather than new, the lyrics trip smartly but lack kick, the tunes are good to hear but hard to hum. Composer Rome offers nothing so bomb-bursting as his last season's Sing Me a Song with Social Significance, nothing so hilarious as his Chain Store Daisy. Only once could...
Convict Richard Whitney, Groton and Harvard graduate who has been teaching visual education* at Sing Sing, asked for a different job because he was vexed by the backwardness of his pupils, most of whom never finished grade school...