Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, after boosting TIME as a good paper for boys and girls to read, you dig up an old ditty that Bismark's sister used to sing in which Satan swears (TIME, Feb. 22, p. 11) and now (TIME, March 29, p. 38) you allow an "adder" to leave a shot of poison in the form of a witty, unforgettable coined word where youth will ran into it head...
...been the inspiration for much befuddled biography. It is, however, generally agreed that she was born in Saragossa, in Aragon, Spain, between 30 and 40 years ago. Some say that her parents were performers. She was taught to sew?at which art she went nearly blind once?and to sing Vespers in a convent, from which she escaped with the help of the gardener's ladder...
...Broken contracts, excuses about fear of the sea, homesickness, personal ties intruded, and not until E. Ray Goetz, husband of Irene Bordoni, persuaded her, would she set sail? she and her three maids, eight dogs and 42 trunks in an entourage reminiscent of Sarah Bernhardt, who once heard her sing in private and told her she would some day be "as great as I think...
...with a small civic company in her home town. She was thoroughly inexperienced in the woes and wiles of operatic routine. But U. S. newspapermen seized upon her, made her their best news, roused a great public to have an exorbitant pride in a person it had never heard sing...
...Club will sing at six cities during its trip, giving concerts at New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Summit, Passaic and Albany in succession. At three of these cities the Club will be entertained by the local Harvard Club...