Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jobless, penniless, Jimmie Rodgers yodeled his way around the North Carolina countryside, drank all the corn whiskey he could get, organized a little band of hillbillies to sing for food and drink in tumbledown Southern hotels. In 1927 he read that Victor Co. was operating a recording station in Bristol, Va. He bummed his way to Bristol, wandered into the Victor building...
...room on the top floor of Sing Sing's new prison hospital last week Warden Lewis E. Lawes stripped, put on a short white nightgown. In another room on the same floor Sing Sing's Chief Physician Charles Clark Sweet also stripped, put on a clean white short-sleeved shirt, pants and sneakers. While Dr. Sweet scrubbed up, Warden Lawes was wheeled into the operating room, laid out on the operating table by prisoner-nurses who are paid 5? a day. Sheets were spread over him so as to cover the scar of his old rupture operation, expose...
...students from Berlin's Friedrich Wilhelm University to the universities of Breslau and Königsberg, student discipline held fast. At Bonn and Heidelberg, however, young aristocrats began to have their doubts. They took to roaring student songs about Liberty and Freedom, songs they had voluntarily ceased to sing a few months before out of respect for the Nazi "Total State." Korps spirit boiled when Dr. Oskar Staebel, official Nazi student mentor, came out against student caps and the wearing of Korps colors on a narrow ribbon stretched like an ambassador's cordon across the breast...
...bundle 1.000 healthy men who have no particular fondness for reading into one huge hall with nothing much else to do, they will probably sing, sleep or wax playful. Precisely that has occurred on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange almost every trading day for the past two months. Astonished visitors saw sights and heard sounds that would shake the faith of the blackest capitalist. Specialists dozed through raucous japery and ear-splitting versions of such old Floor favorites as "Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie" or "The Wearing of the Green." Oldsters yawned over backgammon, clerks wrestled...
...Manhattan plays, she secured a Universal contract, playing bits until George Arliss selected her for The Man Who Played God (1932). Since then she has worked up to the position of star in pictures like So Big, The Rich Are Always With Us, Dark Horse, 20,000 Years in Sing Sing, Cabin in the Cotton, Ex-Lady. Her roles were usually those of a young lady with simple notions and sophisticated manners. Christened Ruth Elizabeth Davis, she coined her own stage name when she was 12, by misspelling Betty. When she arrived in Hollywood she was called a "school girl...