Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born in Tacoma, Wash, in 1904. studied law at Gonzaga University, failed to take his bar examination, became a "hot" singer with Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys. When William Paley of Columbia Broad casting System heard a Crosby phono graph record, Bing was hired to sing on the radio for Cremo cigars, imitating Rudy Vallee's low register quavers. Now almost as popular as Vallee in the U. S. and Eng land, Crosby is much more popular else where, partly because his singing has ceased to be affected, partly because he is the only U. S. crooner sufficiently...
...wife, a Eurasian vaudeville singer who calls herself Princess Nai Tai Ta. When they were first married eight years ago Mrs. Greenleaf took a lively interest in her husband's work, wore a brown en semble at his games for luck. At exhibition matches she also essayed to sing accompaniments to Greenleaf's fanciest shots. When they separated, Champion Greenleaf presented...
...engaged as impresario. He was handed $79,000 and told it was all he could have to pay for his artists. The talent that Impresario Longone got for the money bears evidence to the passing of fantastic fees. Soprano Maria Jeritza, who opened many a Metropolitan season, was to sing the first night in Tosca. Mario Chamlee, John Charles Thomas and Grace Moore were listed for later on. Edith Mason and Rosa Raisa, two of Insull's singers, were back New Year's Eve Marion Talley will sing in Rigoletto, the opera in which she made her sensational...
...this, busty-wusty West has enough push to put it over satisfactorily, if you are only seeking an afternoon's entertainment. Her walk and her accent, for those who like them, are there. Even professors of ancient Gaelic and students of the Urdu verb forms will enjoy hearing her sing "I've found a new way to go to town," and lechery, after all, is always to the point. An excellent shot, which seems to give promise that the old girl can act, is that in which Mae shows her presents to a friend; you will see what I mean...
...with the legal nature of obscenity since 1931. In that year he ruled in favor of Dr. Marie Stope's Married Love. Three months later he rendered a favorable decision on her Contraception. He was the judge in famed plagiarism suits over Strange Interlude and Of Thee I Sing, in both of which he rendered decisions for the defendants. He earned the vacation he devoted to Ulysses by presiding last spring at the longest criminal case in the history of U. S. jurisprudence, the 109-day fraud trial of the promoters of the National Diversified Corp. who bilked Roman...