Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long Hyde Park conference with Chairman Marriner S. Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau and Budget Director Daniel W. Bell. Fearing the medicine of reduced Federal spending more than the disease of unbalanced budgets, businessmen, like the New Deal, began to sing a different tune. ¶ In Boston, where she went to visit her son John, convalescing after the removal of four wisdom teeth, Mrs. Roosevelt said to a group of cameramen: "I should think you'd get tired of taking my photograph." Said a rude photographer: "We do." ¶ Later in the week...
When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart made his first visit to Italy, at 14, he heard a soprano called La Bastardella sing an "unbelievable" C in altissimo, an octave above the C in alt (high C) which is the difficult top of many a soprano's reach. Later in his Magic Flute, Mozart wrote for the Queen of Night-one of the most difficult coloratura soprano roles sung today-nothing higher than F in alt, or three and one-half tones below C in altissimo. Less than a century after Mozart's death, Jenny Lind produced effortless...
...third-act costume.... I knew that four of my beaus were in the audience. Each one had carefully let me know where he would be sitting. The impulse to play a little joke on them all was too much for me. As the opera went on, I proceeded to sing passionately to each in turn.... I preferred roles that allowed me to make a feature of my curves, since, apparently, I couldn't avoid having them. . . . King Edward induced me to try to play golf. . . . But after a few trials I found my arm too short and my bust...
...opening performance Satirist Cohan irked the authors, annoyed Tunesmiths Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart by balking at other verses about Liberty Leaguer Alfred E. Smith and some of his associates, substituting instead some lyrics of his own devising. "I just wouldn't sing them," said Actor Cohan, who is no less famed for his loyalty than for his wide talent, "because they were about personal friends of mine." Actor Cohan's extempore lyrics were not repeated. Co-Author Kaufman pooh-poohed rumors of backstage discord over the incident. Said he smoothly, "Everything is smooth and lovely...
George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart wrote the book; Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart wrote the songs. Nevertheless, the combination seems sadly uninspired. "Of Thee I Sing" should have remained a final expression; "I'd Rather Be Right" has very little to add to the former's artistic trenchaney. The new work is a highly specific representation of the present administration, with ridicule hurled at everybody in it. Jim Farley, Henry Morgenthau, and Madame Secretary Perkins are undoubtedly fit subjects for the lampooner's art, and the caricatures of them are skillfully drawn. But the President is scarcely touched when...