Word: singed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems . . . that a poor serpent was unhappy because everyone was afraid of him, and he concluded that the fear was due to his unfortunate voice. So the serpent pleaded with Jupiter to give him the voice of a nightingale. Up in the tree he went and started to sing with all the seductive charm of the nightingale...
Every now & then the logic of it all was overpowering. Suppose he did have to settle for a small part in a western movie at first? Wouldn't they spot Artie Biggs for a surefire Roy Rogers when they saw his lightning draw and heard him sing the way he sang at Manhattan's St. Vincent Ferrer's school? Why should a kid with his talents stew through fourth grade, take Skippy and Lady out for their walks every night and waste away his life in a 66th Street flat-when Hollywood was right there, waiting...
Whiffenpoofs Sing...
...Sing Launderers claimed, however, faculty members brought in as many tell-tale shirts as students...
...ballets"-the classics that England's Royal Opera House company has made its specialty-it had to have both. Says U.S. Choreographer George Balanchine: "When you dance in a short skirt, a tutu, you have to be very well trained, very precise. It's like a coloratura singing Mozart; she has to sing every note. In classical ballet, legs are coloratura...