Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Slicker Gay, whose 200-man rural stable brings him more than $1,000,000 a year, found Jimmy five years ago doing a rube comedy act with a fright wig, blacked-out teeth and rouged-in freckles at a rowdy Washington honkytonk, hired him at $64 a week to sing and play his piano, accordion and guitar for U.S. troops in the Caribbean. On his return Jimmy joined several of Gay's corn-fed broadcasting groups and made a howling hillbilly recording called Bumming Around ("I'm free as a breeze, I'll do as I please...
...mission named Horbury Brig, in Devonshire, were scheduled to march to church to join the children of the nearby parish in worship. As the mission's curate later told it, "Mr. Fred Knowles [a church warden] came to me at the Vicarage and asked what they were to sing on the long walk. We discussed one thing and then another and I said I would write a processional. 'You must be sharp about it,' said Mr. Knowles, 'for this is Saturday and there will shortly be no printing done.' So I set to work...
...songs and ballads, e.g., Widdecombe Fair. He was a staunch High-churchman; there is a legend that the Low-Church Archbishop of York on a visit to Baring-Gould's church objected to the carrying of a cross in the processional and Baring-Gould instructed the choir to sing...
...Manhattan and his split-level home in the suburbs to fish for his soul in the shade of a Rocky Mountain peak. The hero of The Durable Fire undergoes the equivalent of a deathbed conversion before he can regain his faith in the corporate way of life. Both men sing the organizational blues, to wit, Big Business is too much like Big Brother...
Citation: "The range of her renditions reflects the plenitude of a private life in which triumph has been sublimated by tribulation . . . Here in this fabulous city, the scene of so many of her conquests, we would sing her praises even unto the proscenium arch of the high heavens...