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Word: singed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hapless Julie, dashing in the satin flounces of an 1885 showgirl, who is forced to leave Cap'n Andy's troupe when it turns out she is a mulatto illegally married to a white man. Paul Robeson appears as the honest, lazy handyman who does little but sing 01' Man River while the camera travels from his calm black face to toiling Negroes, and finally to the broad, rippling Mississippi - in this case the Los Angeles River, widened to 100 ft. by three steam shovels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 18, 1936 | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...clock Lowell House will hold a dinner as a reception for its new members from the Freshman class. President-emeritus Lowell has been invited and is expected to attend. The chairman of the House Committee will speak, and the House Glee Club has been asked to sing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House News | 5/8/1936 | See Source »

...BEYOND SING THE WOODS-Trygve Gulbranssen-Putnam ($2.50). The saga of a powerful Norwegian family which dominates the countryside, partly through superstition, partly through usury. Skill in narration, a lyric prose, an interesting milieu, save the novel from childishness by a narrow margin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: May 4, 1936 | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...addition to the regular program the club will sing Harvard songs in accordance with the annual custom. All members of the University will be invited to take part in these songs from the steps of Widener...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO YARD CONCERTS BY GLEE CLUB THIS YEAR | 5/2/1936 | See Source »

...Structure it is a polyphonic composition, in which eight separate voices combine with the orchestra in simultaneous performance of varying melodic or rhythmic patterns. there are occasions on which the first and second sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses may be required to sing eight different melodies in simultaneous harmony with the instruments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB WILL SING ST. MATTHEW PASSION IN TODAY'S CONCERT | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

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