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Word: singeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...root of all evil. Violinist Spalding will start the series with "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen." Almost as striking as the Spalding-Castoria conjunction will be the crooning of Helen Morgan for Bi-So-Dol, stomach sweetener, at 2 p. m. Sundays. Tenor John McCormack will sing lush Irish ballads for Vince mouthwash. Spindling Nat Shilkret & orchestra will provide a background for the Vitamin A in Smith Brothers couph-drops. Nino Martini will sing for Lirit bath softener. Actor Fred Stone, a comparative newcomer to radio, will have his wife and three daughters with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera for Chicago | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

...Boston Common, Mayor Curley administered an oath to school children: "I promise as a good American citizen to do my part for the NRA. I will buy where the Blue Eagle flies." At Ossining, N. Y., Sing Sing inmates got a holiday when 100 of their guards marched in the local demonstration. The Tulsa parade was led by Mrs. Samuel L. Johnson, General Johnson's 77-year-old mother, who had addressed a NRA rally night before. Said she: "People had better obey the NRA because my son will enforce it like lightning, and you can never tell when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Not Since the Armistice. . . . | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

...Ellery comes at last to the temperamental diva, Sonya Sonya. The diva turns out to be Olga Baclanova, a fullblown Muscovite who in recent years has adorned the films. During one of the lulls in the investigation she appears, in a white satin gown which shimmers and hints, to sing with a somewhat uncertain falsetto a song called "You Love Me." Miss Baclanova tells Inspector Ellery: "I read men like books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 25, 1933 | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

Married-Gwendolyn, only daughter of famed Tenor John McCormack; and Edward Pyke, Liverpool businessman; in London. Hordes of Londoners pressed into Brompton Oratory to hear Tenor McCormack sing the Ave Maria ("the song of my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 25, 1933 | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

...modern theatre seems to have become unusually arty, so that the least pretentious production offers a relief from the extremely serious plays. Both the producers and theatre-goers have for the last few years taken the stage too seriously and the choice of this light piece ("Of Thee I Sing") as the winner of the Pulitzer Prize may point to a reaction." Kenneth B. Murdock '16, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sentences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUOTES | 9/23/1933 | See Source »

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