Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HAPPy days are HERE again! THUH skies aBOVE are CLEAR again! Let us SING a SONG of CHEER again! HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN...
Convention Hall roars to the Democratic war song. Red-eyed delegates sing, shout, weep, laugh, wring hands, whale backs and jostle one another in the aisles. Spotlights swing dizzily around the vast room; the convention floor is a riotous sea of waving signs. BANG! BANG! BANG! Permanent Chairman Sam Rayburn thumps endlessly for order: "The sergeant at arms will clear the aisles." Finally, a hush falls. Rayburn smiles for the first time in precisely four years. "Members of the convention!" cries he. "It is my great pleasure to give you the NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...
Callas had broken her contract, Bing explained, by backing out on her agreement (confirmed by her as recently as five weeks ago) to sing in three productions of La Traviata at the Met this season. After lengthy correspondence and, evidently, ample provocation from Callas, Bing wired her an ultimatum that if she did not agree-"by 10 a.m. Thursday"-to sing in Traviata or the substitute roles he offered her, her contract would be canceled...
...Pick on Me?" The main trouble, retorted Callas, was that Bing had signed her to sing two performances of Traviata, on Feb. 13 and 17, between two performances of Macbeth on Feb. 5 and 21. "Macbeth is a very heavy opera. I have to build back to my heavy voice, and it takes a month. My voice is not an elevator, going up and down...
Whose Eyeteeth? Was it true, Callas was asked, that she had told Bing she was going to give up singing? "It is true," said Callas, "that I will not sing routine-those old performances of Norma, Lucia. I think it is my duty as an artist. Once you have Callas, treat her properly...