Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orchestra played "East Side. West Side." "Everybody sing.'' urged the master of ceremonies. Silence. John A. Mullen, chairman of the speakers' bureau, read from a letter: "For my own protection and to save embarrassment I have cut out all dinners. . . . Alfred E. Smith." Hisses. Boos...
...Walska was her own sleek self in ropes of pearls and tight black velvet, cut to the waist behind. It was Ganna Walska whom Philadelphians turned out to see, regardless of her Second-Empire costumes. For them it was enough that she had overcome her stage-fright sufficiently to sing...
...thousand Texans sat in the Dallas Auditorium. Many had come from miles away to hear Baritone John Charles Thomas. In intermission there was to be a special celebration. On request he would sing "Home on the Range'' and when he finished he would be presented with a badge and the title of honorary Texas ranger...
...Texans waited 45 minutes and Thomas did not appear. Finally an an nouncement was made that his $1,500 guarantee had not been raised. He had offered to sing for $750 but had refused the $500 that Local Manager Harriet Bacon MacDonald offered...
...want it to be hoppy and jumpy. It was a thought dance in his conception. ... I am not a dancer. I have never studied dancing, but for the opera I do not think that is important. I am willing to do the dance in order to be allowed to sing Salome's music...