Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important political or financial backing. He has, as the administrator of sizeable appropriations, made many important political enemies. Prisons are good copy for the sensational journalist; the common-place of any prison life, skillfully stated, can easily assume the character of a public scandal. Mr. Osborne was driven from Sing Sing by just such an attack, and although every charge made against him was publicly disproved, he found it impossible to remain at his post...
...rather than satirical, these three poems sing of London love. A Stitch in Time, or Pride Prevents a Fall tells how Belinda nearly fell a prey to the importunity of a suitor, at the last minute saved her virtue when she remembered she had darned her green chemise with pink thread. In Love's Progress, or The Education of Araminta a serious-minded, Ruskin-loving girl runs the gamut of arty life, ends as the wedded wife of a Victorian-lover. Cupid's Changeling, or The Lady's Mistake recounts the comic error of a lady novelist...
...trip has been scheduled to Smith College, Northampton, on March 10, where the Glee Club will sing with the Smith Choral Society...
Hips, Hips, Hooray (RKO). "Frisby's Beauty Products" is another business enterprise in which girls sing, dance and tub. The opulent proprietress (Thelma Todd) and a pretty salesgirl (Dorothy Lee) meet two preposterous persons (Bert Wheeler & Robert Woolsey) who sell flavored lipstick. They dance a lively ballet in a stranger's office, plug a pleasant song: "Keep On Doin' What You're Doin.' " Admirers of the agonized smile of small Wheeler and the brisk dignity of cigar-chewing Woolsey will relish the automobile race which they win after a cyclone whirls them up into...
...entered the War George Cohan started writing topical songs. He sat down at the piano, fumbled around with the F sharp chords† and in no time "Over There" was ready for Nora Bayes to sing and 4,000,000 soldiers to march to. "Over There" sold 3,000,000 copies, became musical history. Woodrow Wilson sent Cohan an autographed photograph while his secretary, Joseph Patrick Tumulty, wrote a letter: "The President considers your War song a genuine inspiration to all American manhood...