Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more names were added last night to the student waiter petition, bringing the total up to 36, with four men refusing to sing. The leaders of the petition plan to consult a faculty member; today and then take it to Dean Deighton or Dean Bender...
...Jenkins appeared in flame-colored velvet, with yellow ringlets piled high on her head. For a starter she picked Brahms' Die Mainacht, subtitled on her gilt program as "O singer, if thou canst not dream, leave this song unsung." Mrs. Jenkins could dream if she could not sing. With her hands clasped to her heart she passed on to Vergebliches Standchen, which she had labeled "The Serenade in Vain...
...Farrar career has always been well planned, from the girlhood day in Melrose, Mass., when Geraldine impersonated Jenny Lind and attempted to dazzle her audience by singing an Italian aria. Her father was a storekeeper who played professional baseball in the summertime. Though money was scarce, Geraldine was determined to be an opera-singer. She studied in Boston and in Manhattan where she stood in line to hear Melba, Calve, Lilli Lehmann, Jean de Reszke. The Metropolitan offered to let her sing in a Sunday-night concert but, even at 16, she wanted something better. She persuaded her father...
When she retired from the Metropolitan at 40. Geraldine Farrar turned to German Lieder which would not tax her voice. She gave herself exactly ten years on the concert stage. In 1932 she again retired, vowing never to sing again in public...
Corot had a good voice, would sometimes sing at parties. He never read newspapers. Although he lived through two French revolutions (1830, 1848) and the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) he seemed aware of only the latter...