Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Handsome, 34-year-old Tom Corcoran, protege of Felix Frankfurter, is more to the President than a brilliant and useful young legalite. He is also a charming, cultured, liberal Harvardman whose ability to sing and accompany himself on accordion and piano has won the White House heart. It was, therefore, a breath-bated moment when beefy, domineering Chairman O'Connor began his investigation last week by barking in response to Tom Corcoran's request for a question...
...campus of New York University or to Prospect Park in Brooklyn to listen to Edwin Franko Goldman's band, no tune is more familiar than his march, On the Mall. Well do they know its words, its lively chorus with breaks during which they whistle and sing la-la-la-la. One night last week the Goldman Band launched into On the Mall, but for once not under the baton of white-mopped Bandmaster Goldman. On the podium stood a dark, chunky little man in a white suit. He waved his arms in a vigorous if unorthodox beat...
...married a Briton named Morris Savage, sub-manager of the Imperial Bank, who was later ordered out to his firm's office in Persia. In her three years in Teheran Mrs. Savage lived in a palace, sang at social functions. The Shah, she says, told her: "Madame, you sing like a bulbul." Under the impression that the Shah was referring to the Persian nightingale, Mme Savage naturally felt flattered. Later she heard a braying donkey called a "bulbul," learned that Persians also applied the term to any noisy animal. Says she today: "I still don't know what...
Marriage Revealed. Crystal* Marion Lawes, 24, daughter of Sing Sing Warden Lewis E. Lawes; and Jack Stratton Douvarjo, 24, florist, son of a Mt. Vernon (N. Y.) barber; following elopement to Manhattan last...
...confused with Sister "Cherie" (Joan Marie), 13, pet & playmate of Sing Sing trusties...