Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wild-eyed escapees broke into the Herveys' cabin was a semblance of order restored. A young convict called a ship's meeting, delivered a ringing oration pledging that he and his comrades would mend their ways if their escape succeeded. He got his fellow convicts to sing Ecuador's national anthem, then led cheers for Ecuador, the U.S. and liberty...
...Youngstown, Ohio, the Vindicator carried a help-wanted ad: "WANTED, 5 boys to sing in quartet. Must be willing to sing...
...Europe on a Fulbright fellowship in 1954 to study voice at the Paris Conservatory. While on a concert tour, she dropped into a Hamburg café one day, was spotted by an opera official. "That's exactly the kind of girl wre're looking for to sing Carmen," he said to his companion. "Pity she's not a singer." Said his companion, a friend of Vera's: "But she is-and besides she's a mezzo." Next day Soprano Little flew to West Berlin to audition for brilliant Opera Director Carl Ebert (TIME...
...Hollywood fadeout to the Bocce story by discovering a great new singer. But the Bocce has had at least one glorious moment: five years ago, with 3,300 tickets sold for a Pacific Opera performance of Pagliacci, Tenor Ernest Lawrence phoned to say he was too sick to sing Canio. Two hours before curtain time, Director Arturo Casiglia reached Bocce Tenor Arthur Peters, zipped him into the costume of Leoncavallo's tragic clown, gave him a pointer or two on acting and propelled him onstage. He did fine, got warm critical notices...
...beer-guzzling publicans for his choir, he scandalizes the pastor, who is devoted to muscular Christianity ("Yes, Christ is alive today, out in the field batting for us"). When Floyd laces into his choirwomen for turning the house of prayer into a den of cake sellers, the outraged ladies sing like hornets. Bank Teller Floyd has always regarded his life as a deposit for his wife and three kids, but when he fails to expire on schedule ("I wish he'd die and have done with"), they up and leave...