Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shots of thyroid or pituitary hormones enable a dwarf to fit into a man-sized suit of clothes, a young boy to sing basso profundo. Spectacular as the results of hormone treatment may be, doctors are still in the dark about the exact size of the injection in many unusual cases, have dared to administer only conservative amounts of hormone over long periods of time. Last year Physiologists R. Deanesly and Alan Sterling Parkes of the National Institute for Medical Research at London grew tired of performing innumerable injections in their laboratory, decided that they needed a "laborsaving device." They...
...maids and men, hark well to me, Sing Aleluya-wellaway! Full blest shall such a wooing be, Sing hey, God loves a lover! For they that meet in chapel cell, Are wooed and won and wedded well; Their lives ring sweet like chiming bell, Forever and forever...
...Jones (Hal Kemp; Victor). Harold Rome's rousing barn dance tune from the new Sing Out The News (see p. 30). Foxtrot-of-the-month...
...Sing Out the News (by Charles Friedman and Harold J. Rome; produced by Max Gordon in association with George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart). Biggest musical find last season was Composer Harold J. Rome, who wrote the songs for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union homespun Left revue. Pins and Needles, Rome's Sing Out the News is a custom-tailored, more conservatively cut satire on world events, most of whose pins are safety pins. Recurrent target for its gags, skits, songs, is neither Hitler nor Chamberlain, strikes nor wars, but Franklin D. Roosevelt. Now & then the firecrackers land...
...continue to find him through Saturday. In this most popular if not the most skillfully made of the Hardy Family series, Mickey Rooney undergoes parallel love affairs with Polly, the true love, and Cynthia, a cooperative redhead at the same time humoring Judy Garland, who is there only to sing. If his facial contortions add up to something less than good acting, Mr. Rooney is nevertheless very funny; and although the Hardy pictures are starting to lose their simplicity and naturalness the lines are still good and the whole result delightful...