Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horror. Not until next morning did Mr. Garner hear the news. In all innocence he wired Franklin Roosevelt that he had not heard of the attempt upon his life until that moment. †The timid, fumbling, impotent Vice President, as played by Victor Moore in Of Thee I Sing (TIME...
Awake and Sing! The agonies of a family in The Bronx, by Clifford Odets, whose Waiting for Lefty is also something...
Such a huge choral festival was the ambition of Boston's bustling Emma Fisher who has never forgotten her chagrin of 14 years ago when she went to Switzerland as a delegate to an Anglo-American Music Conference. There she discovered that Britons could sing and that her U.S. companions could not. The Britons boasted of their many choral societies and forthwith choral singing became bustling Emma Fisher's platform. Last spring she visited Detroit, talked to influential citizens whose enthusiasm grew strong when the Juilliard Foundation offered to lend $5,000, when Mrs. Frederick M. Alger agreed...
...Grace Moore, Manager Johnson wisely promised that young aspirants would have a chance to attain a "natural growth" in a supplementary season. Said he: "I feel that the American artist has never been properly presented. If he has been accepted by the Metropolitan, he has been obliged to sing on the same stage with the greatest artists in the world who have poise and authority. It is no wonder that the young artist does not succeed...
...country"). Once, he says, he hoped a party was being formed to which he could give his allegiance, and he wrote some songs for it; but when it went the way of all parties he rewrote his songs, "increased their fantasy, their extravagance, their obscurity, that no party might sing them...