Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reprinted from Stars & Stripes. Pages of photographs showed enlistment lines, chow lines, tent lines, work lines. For the benefit of those who did not know what they swore to, the 237-word C. C. C. enlistment oath was reprinted. Local camp news appeared under such headings as " 'Sing in Rain' at Hills Grove," "Things 'Nice' at Allenton," "Camp Perkins Is Busy," "Two AWOLs Come Back." Offered was a $5 prize for the best nickname for C. C. C. workers to match the A. E. F.'s "doughboy." Happy Days was priced...
...college, often carrying lunch which she eats in the basement. Half the girls have outside, part-time jobs. A "tradition" of planting ivy from historic places was begun last year in The Bronx. Someone tried to popularize wearing academic gowns but this died out. Hunter thinks its spring "sing" as exciting as Vassar's Daisy Chain or Smith's Rally Day. Girls from each class gather in the Metropolitan Opera House, wearing costumes, and compete with serious and comic songs based on central themes like Mother Goose or the Arabian Nights...
...seduction of Socialite Charlotte Gibson of Tappan, N. Y. by Riding Master Sidney Herbert Homewood (TIME, Dec. 19 et seq.): Homewood's arrival at Sing Sing to start a prison sentence of from 18 months to three years...
...Brooklyn last week with Evangelist Hill was a character rarely seen now in city churches, an "Escaped Nun." Good-humored Lou Hill told of his son, a ''little tike who knows Jesus and rides up and down the street on his velocipede all day long singing 'Onward Christian Soldiers.'" Lou Hill likes to sing himself. In the Bible Church of hoodlum Cicero, Ill. he got himself photographed in an impromptu hymn sing (see cut) with four other gangsters turned evangelist: Bert Baker, onetime Capone man, Fred Jacover, "high class confidence man," Fred Ingersoll, "slickest automobile thief...
...week Manager Gatti-Casazza generously permitted the University of Michigan to steal a march on him. The world premiere of Merry Mount was given in Ann Arbor in concert form, climax of a four-day festival. Solemn as Supreme Court judges, University students sat behind a bench backstage to sing the Puritans' choral music. Ann Arbor's festival singers sat on the stage on either side of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Composer Howard Hanson was there to conduct, waving his angular arms about to build up choral climaxes which helped atone for the weak orchestral moments. The Puritans...