Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...getting Frank Murphy back from his $18,000 job as Philippine High Commissioner to run for the $5,000 Governorship of Michigan. Month ago the redhaired, freckled, dynamic onetime Mayor of Detroit was so worried about his own chances that he got his Presidential patron to tour the State, sing his praises at every station stop. For a time on election night it looked as though Democrat Murphy's fears had been justified, but when the Detroit returns came in it seemed clear that Republican Frank D. Fitzgerald, the incumbent, had lost...
...Hotel, where she collects coins, miniature paintings and small-sized dachshunds (she now owns 18), were not satisfied by her explanation that she wanted "the smell of the sawdust." But her future plans told more. This winter she hopes to make the opera Manon for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, to sing weekly for the Coca-Cola radio program, and next spring to be a guest artist at the Coronation Concerts in England...
...Gloucester, Mass., newshawks disovered 3-year-old Joseph Randazza, 146 lb. 4 ft., 6 in. In Yarmouth, England was found 4-year-old Leslie Bowles, 154 lb. Said Leslie's father: "He can sing and talk as well." Blurted playmates of Joseph: "Joe doesn't play. He fights...
...most eloquently in Chicago's Stadium when, on the platform from which he delivered his 1932 acceptance speech, he cried: "Four years ago . . . I came to a Chicago fighting with its back to the wall-factories closed, markets silent, banks shaky, ships and trains empty. Today those factories sing the song of industry, markets hum with bustling movement, banks are secure, ships and trains are running full. Once again it is Chicago as Carl Sandburg saw it, 'the city of the big shoulders,' the city that smiles...
...Glee Club is blossoming forth early in the season this year by participating in the Symphony concerts of this Friday and Saturday. The work in which they are to sing is Liszt's Faust Symphony, which employs a chorus in its third and last movement. Written during the years 1854-57, the symphony is really neither fish nor fowl; for while composed in the form of a three movement symphony, it violates the classic symphonic principles by its attempt at character delineation and its utilization of representative themes, much as in Wagnerian opera. The characters whom Liszt describes musically...