Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There, as in the U. S., his plain Anglo-Saxon name was a handicap. He changed it to Eduardo di Giovanni, made his mark at La Scala before he was invited home. For more than a decade he has been the No. 1 North American-born tenor. Others may sing louder. But Johnson never errs as an artist, never fails to be an attractive, credible hero. As Roméo and Pelléas he has surpassed all his contemporaries...
...teach canaries to sing, trainers spend laborious months playing flutes, violins, water organs, chimes. Last week Milton Metfessel reported to Science that eight canaries born & reared in soundproof cages in a University of Southern California psychology laboratory are now producing all the effects in a trained canary's repertoire: hollow roll, hollow bell, schockel, flutes, water roll, bass roll, glucke, glucke roll, water glucke, deep bubbling water tour, bell roll, bell tour, bell glucke...
...only in subways does Mrs. Tubman sing the National Anthem. She has sung it in an Army blimp 3,000 ft. in the air, in a submarine, a coal mine, on ships at sea, in jails, insane asylums, "on the highest mountains in Switzerland," over the radio, in schools, churches and homes. Says she: "I'm always the first to sing it. I never let anyone get ahead...
...misrepresented its stock to the public, the Government called a witness who testified that the company had claimed to have $27,000,000 in cash in 1930 whereas actually there was less than $4,000,000. Another declared that Frank Parish and the stock-selling company he organized to sing the praises of Mo-Kan securities had used company money to manipulate the stock. That was the" real reason for Mo-Kan's downfall, said the prosecutor, who added that Frank Parish & wife had taken secret profits of $950,000 in stock manipulations...
...many songs. Shoulder to shoulder, bolder and bolder. Bolder and colder and older and greater and much later you find yourself at the Crescent Club. Stick to scotch, Please! Can't anyone enunciate? Reform! reform! we're going to reform the world... that's a song they used to sing at the Old Howard. You are not unfamiliar with it, perhaps, Rosemary?... Not at all... in fact very flattering. Very, very Herry. That's the way Mr. Jaunders used to pronounce it. Not Jaunders... won't you dawdle in my bordel said the spider to the fly. Who, I, said...