Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trip to Brooklyn with concerts at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the studio of the National Broadcasting Company in Radio City, will start the season for the singers. Sixty undergraduate members will leave by boat on Monday, November 26, sing at Brooklyn on the 27th, over the network on the 28th, and return that night. A joint concert with the Yale Glee Club will be held at New Haven on the night before the Yale football game. Fifty Harvard men will participate...
...publishers for Presidential reading: biographies of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Richelieu, Andrew Jackson, Queen Elizabeth, Grover Cleveland. Theodore Roosevelt, Marie Antoinette; autobiographies of Clarence Darrow, Lincoln Steffens, Alice B. Toklas; Beveridge and the Progressive Era, The War of Independence, The Grain Race, Stars Fell on Alabama, Of Thee I Sing, poems of Archibald MacLeish, Diego Rivera's Portrait of America, The New Dealers, Farewell to Reform, Vols. 3, 4 & 5 of Mark Sullivan's Our Times, Yachts Under Sail, Tobacco Road, Obscure Destinies, Union Square, One More Spring, Rabble in Arms, Road to Nowhere, Christmas Tree...
...Sing them silent, dance them still and laugh them into an open shame!'' cries The Dreamer. And the Old Woman scorns the impotent Bishop's sister in words that might have come from James Joyce : "Salaam, mem pukka memsahib. en' pardon her, en' pardon me, en' pardon us all for getting in the way of thy greatness; en' grant us grace to have faith in thy dignity en' importance, per benedicte pax hugger muggery ora pro puggery rigmarolum...
...stilled and oak trees moved from their places to listen. Even Cerberus, the three-headed guardian of Hades, was lulled to sleep when the musician tried to bring Eurydice back from the dead. Jealous Thracian maidens killed Orpheus who was buried in Libethra where the nightingales are supposed to sing more sweetly than in any other part of Greece. He is remembered as the God of Music...
Michael Sinnott was a good boilermaker but he wanted to sing in opera. So he left East Berlin, Conn., changed his name to Mack Sennett, went to Manhattan to seek his fortune. That was in 1906. How he struggled and prospered, and how a little mouse got him in the end is the theme of Gene Fowler's Father Goose. For once biographer and subject are an almost perfect match. Readers who never saw a Keystone comedy will have a hard time restraining their whoops as Gene Fowler unreels this fantastic slapstick-story of Hollywood success...