Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leading gangsters of three leading U. S. cities are leaders no more. Chicago's Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone is rounding out his first year in Atlanta Penitentiary for tax evasion. New York's Owen ("Owney") Madden languishes in Sing Sing for parole violation and Larry Fay, onetime milk racketeer, departed this life New Year's Day, broke. Twenty-four days later Boston's Charles ("King") Solomon, interested in liquor, narcotics and white slaves, was pistoled to death in a Roxbury, Mass, night club...
...forced to borrow $10. Newsboys had to sell on credit. In Midland, big Dow Chemical Co. coined magnesium into "Dowmetal money" with a specified value of 20?. The City of Detroit went into technical default, its bonds slumped badly. But Michigan stayed cheerful. It was considered funny to sing to your friends "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime...
...Chancellor Hitler on restoration. In the National Theatre at Munich the Royal box was occupied during a performance of Der Vogelhändler ("The Birdseller") last week by iron-jawed former Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, his beauteous wife and her two sisters. When Bavarian stage soldiers began to sing "God be With Thee, Bavarian Lamb!" the audience burst into Monarchist cheers, hacked "Their Majesties." ¶ Because the entire Catholic Press of Prussia printed a warning against revolution and a criticism of Chancellor Hitler signed by 13 Catholic societies, virtually the entire Catholic Press of Prussia (more than 300 newspapers...
...last order the Porcupine quartet had not the heart to obey. They simply had to clean up when they went to the big city. They appeared at the dinner in store clothes with faces bright & shining. Vexed, Matt Brush would not let them sing. He and jovial Speculator Bernard E. ("Ben") Smith, upon whom the quartet had also made a profound impression and who had helped finance the stunt, were deeply disappointed over the whole business...
Three new German singers have helped to make this season's Ring performances surpass those of many years: Soprano Frida Leider, whose Briinnhilde last week made startlingly credible the creature half goddess, half woman, which Wagner imagined, dark handsome Contralto Maria Olszewska, who like Frida Leider used to sing with the Chicago Civic Opera; Basso Ludwig Hofmann whose Hagen was a model of malevolence. These three with Tenor Lauritz Melchior, the Siegfried, and Baritone Friedrich Schorr, who last week was Hagen's weak-kneed half-brother Gunther, caused Critic Lawrence Gilman to write in the Herald Tribune...