Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...song, besides being very popular, has traveled far. I was astounded a year ago to hear the Episcopal Bishop of Honolulu, who has lived many years as a missionary in China, sing the song in Chinese...
...weeks ago Long Island churchmen obtained Col. Todd's permission to hold Long Island's first Easter dawn service on a wide clearing in the hills of "The Priory." They arranged for four trumpeters to blow sweetly at dawn's arrival, a chorus of 200 to sing "The Messiah" clergymen from Huntington, Brooklyn and Manhattan to speak. Congregations would come by the busload. The Long Island R. R. would put on a "Sunrise Special." After the service, worshippers would file through Col. Todd's studio to behold his blond Christ...
...from radio stations and cinemansions. But President Gene Buck (who wrote the lyrics for "Sally, Won't You Come Back?'' and "Hello Frisco") made a speech which gave a brighter look to the song industry. When beer comes back, he said, people will be inspired to sing once more. Irving Berlin has expressed the same conviction: "Songwriters undoubtedly will be influenced by the return of beer and beer gardens. . . . The tricky rhythm so popular for the past eight years is dying out. Songs will become a little simpler, or 'corny,' meaning more homey. Since...
...Smith, Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman and Dr. Alexander Lyons would be speakers representing the three faiths. Tenor John McCormack, who sang at Dublin's Eucharistic Congress last year and who last week was awarded Notre Dame's prized Laetare Medal (annual, for distinguished Roman Catholic laymen), would sing Cesar Franck's Panis Angelicas. And President Roosevelt would speak, perhaps in person, surely by radio...
...significant which this year's pudding has revealed is that there is one more feat which defys the art of any Harvard undergraduate. A Harvard man simply does not know how to wear a form-fitting dress. But he can sing, skip rope, and as is most convincingly proved, he can sometimes write music...