Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flat, the last work performed, the orchestra sounded as though it had not yet calmed down after the Hindemith. The balances were poor and the tone in general ragged. Mr. Senturia held the group together with difficulty, and the attacks were consistently bad. The second movement failed to sing, and the menuetto did not have the grace and style which is usually the Orchestra's strongest point...
...graduated from high school in Charleston. W. Va. (pop. 75,000), Jennie, who looks like the second-prettiest girl at a high-school prom, has taken on a new name (old one: Jo Ann Kristof), learned to gush cute quotes ("I'm crazy about mustard sandwiches ... I sing sad songs saddest when I'm happy") and do a very fair imitation of throaty, top-ranking Jazz Singer June Christy. To the tub-thumping rhythm of an intense promotional campaign by RCA Victor, Jennie just finished a month of bouncing about the country buttering up disk jockeys and celebrating...
...named Andrew MacDhui in a little Scottish town called Inveranoch. Thomasina is actually part-narrator of this book. She is a guid Scots puss and purrs with a burr; before Author Gallico is through with the unfortunate beast she does everything but carry a Harry Lauder cane and sing I Love a Lassie...
...human authority" as well as his colleague, Novelist Dudintsev. When asked at a recent diplomatic cocktail party what would become of irksome Author Dudintsev, Dictator Nikita Khrushchev replied blandly: "I intend to see him. He will continue to write, but there will be nothing for which world capitalists will sing his praises...
...refrain. Somehow, for some reason, life must and should go on. Strangely, this is just what her husband's funeral seems to mean to Mary. The children must be made to understand what death is, why their father is "sleeping" but will never awake to tease them, or sing to them. Mary no less then they, must become more "grown-up" and realize what this death will mean. She once said her children were "brought up to trust older people when they tell (them) something. . . ." But she had promised Catherine and Rufus the night of Jay's death that...