Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uniform, And sent him home to Nelly-o, Crashed plumb to jelly-o- Don't lose your flying speed! He did a bank at ninety feet, It was a kinda foolish thing, And now he is the devil's meat, Or listenin' to the angels sing,- Try to get some altitude! He kicked his rudder right around, When landing cross wind to the breeze, And much to his surprise he found, He had an engine on his knees- Land 'em straight and land up slow...
...attorney. Until 1930 when he retired, his brains really ran that office where he was the principal courtroom prosecutor. He put more than a hundred "bucket shops" out of business and thereby learned the shady side of the brokerage business. He sent State Superintendent of Banks Frank Warder to Sing Sing for taking bribes in the City Trust Co. scandal. He convicted Anti-Saloon Leaguer William H. Anderson of forgery. He prosecuted bail bond racketeers, crooked milk inspectors, big-time thugs-with 80% convictions. He was in charge of the District Attorney's office in 1923 when Anna Marie...
Comes the revelation. In a dingy, sub-cellar police station the great Ferraro sings "La Traviata" before a jury of the town's musicians and is promptly acquitted, after promising to sing Rudolpho in the town's production of "La Boheme...
...marry two of the dancer's friends. All this farcical to-do is interrupted from time to time by songs, which may well become as popular as the ones in 42nd Street, called "We're in the Money," "Petting in the Park," "I've Got to Sing a Torch Song," "Forgotten Men." Dance Director Busby Berkeley's most decorative notion was a "shadow waltz" with a chorus in triple-decked hoop skirts carrying phosphorescent violins. The stage presently darkens so that the violins appear to float about under their own power, finally waltz themselves into...
...home many of the delegates visited the Century of Progress Fair, mindful that it was in Chicago, at the Fair of 1893, that the idea of a Federation came up when a group of clubs met there, discovered it was fun to sing together. In the 35 years since its founding, the Federation has grown to have 5,000 clubs. 500,000 individual members, dozens of earnest aims. It conducts study courses, encourages U. S. composers by offering prizes which have ranged from $100 to$10,000. It has spent over $300,000 helping young U. S. artists to launch...