Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picked up by the story as the chatelaine of Noah Beery, a trusting old fellow who runs a cabaret and modest little white slave business. Having a bit of time to spare Mae befriends a young would-be suicidess, visits some ex-beaus who are taking the cure at Sing Sing, juggles with the attentions of Gigolo Gilbert Roland, Racketeer David Landau and Salvation Army Captain Gary Grant. Complications begin when Beery hijacks the suicidess for his Barbary Coast trade, when Mae plants a dirk in the gigolo's mistress. Simultaneously the Salvationist has been ascertaining...
Those who were amazed recently at the disclosure by Sing Sing's chaplain that the Ossining Bastile harbored many a college graduate are due for another shock when they contemplate the presence of an alleged gentleman swindler on the Harvard faculty. It was bad enough to hear that men who had been higher-educated were slipping from the primrose path in some numbers; it is considerably worse to find that those who are hired to nurture them so carefully are often no better than they should...
...locked the door, took pictures of his long-dead father and mother from the little black bag and sat them down before a mirror. Slowly he smeared his face with yellow paint, donned a snakey-cued China-man's wig. For that last afternoon he had chosen to sing in Franco Leoni's L'Oracolo, a one-act opera, second rate to be sure, but one which only he had sung at the Metropolitan, one which exhibited his talent for acting and made no strenuous demands on his voice...
When Caruso sang in La Juive in December 1920, no one knew he was giving his farewell performance. He became fatally ill with pleurisy immediately afterward and Scotti nursed him. leaving him only when he had to sing at the Opera House, returning to him often with his make-up still on. When he sails for Naples Scotti will carry by hand Caruso's photograph and the little bronze head. In Naples, where Caruso is buried. Scotti will pass the rest of his life, simply, now that the stockmarket crash has taken most of his earnings. But he will...
...cavalcade of kings and queens goes onward past the Great War and up to the present time. At last with striving it takes an upward course once more. A gray haired couple whose sons are gone drink a toast to "dignity, greatness, and peace." Outside the New Year throngs sing "Auld Lang Syne" and there is a light on the cross above St. Paul...