Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What other American city has inspired a composer of opera to sing of conviviality and to create a footlight hero in the image of a jolly brewer? From Cincinnati came The Prince of Pilsen...
...Finding myself in an opera house with such a magnificent and responsive audience, I feel an irresistible temptation to sing. (Applause, applause...
...doubt are found in most of the homes and apartments of Bayside. They are harmless, and many people enjoy their chirping; in fact, there was a poem [sic] dedicated to 'The Cricket on the Hearth and in China they put them in cages to hear them sing...
...Sing Sing Prison, the lilies on the chapel's altar at Easter services had been grown by Convict Owen ("Owney") Madden, famed Manhattan beer baron...
There is still a good deal of Gay if not gayety left in the piece. There are thieves, beggars, constables and trollops willing to sing and speak with irony of their woes. But the time has been changed from Queen Anne's day to Queen Victoria's. And the spirit of cutpurse abandon has been superseded by an atmosphere which is often sullen, often merely dirtily proletarian, often obscure...