Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...truth! ''Then sing, brethren and sisters." Praise de Lawd. . . . Yeah...
...white-haired lady of 85. Mrs. M. O. Smith, who as a girl, 71 years before, had stood on a similar platform, had sung a song to a great gathering, had heard Abraham Lincoln begin: "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers. . . " Last week Mrs. Smith did not sing. President Roosevelt, addressing a crowd of 50,000, declared: "Here, in the presence of the spirits of those who fell on this ground, we give renewed assurance that the passions of war are moldering in the tombs of Time...
Capitalists rarely take to the streets to sing songs about their economic credo. Communists and "workers," however, do, noisily, belligerently. A rousing mass song, they have learned, is worth a dozen speeches. And with the growing strength of workers' parties many a new song has been written, rehearsed wherever workers get together. Lately the first U. S. Worker's Song Book was released.* Two of the latest Communist hits...
Last week Mrs. MacDonald retired from the music business. She had been unable to pay Virginia Burbank, a Los Angeles contralto, railroad fare and a small fee. Like Thomas, Contralto Burbank refused to sing. Said she: "I felt that I owed it to the dignity of the music profession...
...outdoor cinema star entertaining a visiting big game hunter (Jack Pearl). Durante hopes to use Pearl's lions in his next picture. Guests at the party (Charles Butterworth, Laurel & Hardy, Polly Moran, Frances Williams, Jack Pearl's neanderthal assistants) break eggs on one another's heads, sing, insult one another, bid for a pair of the explorer's lions, watch a Mickey Mouse cartoon. Produced from a script by Arthur Kober and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's smart Publicity Chief Howard Dietz, who has written Manhattan musical shows for the past five years, Hollywood Party should...