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Word: singeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trail. At dawn the marchers are ready to attack. But the watchdogs have roused the "victims" who join hands and dance to the music of a flute made from a jaguar's leg bone. The music is supposed to make them ferocious as jaguars. As they dance they sing of defiance, contempt, bravery, boasting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Head-Hunting Amenities | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

Helen-Morgan in the full flush of her personality is there to sing "Bill," and "Can't Help Lovin' That Man." There is Norma Terriss as Magnolia. There is the unforgettable undertone of "Ol' Man River...

Author: By H. B., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/25/1932 | See Source »

...first meeting of the German Sing-Song, an informal club of undergraduates who gather to sing German songs and popular music, will be held in the Lowell House Tower Room tonight at 7 o'clock, J. MacL. Hawkes '26, announced yesterday. The organization plans to continue the activities of last year, such as the radio broadcasts, and the talks by guests; concerts will be given by the members before clubs which desire them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOLD GERMAN SING-SONG IN LOWELL TOWER ROOM | 10/19/1932 | See Source »

...their sisters and their cousins and their aunts. Or, transformed into Pirates, they can sally forth to seek their prey and help themselves in a royal way. But as Gondolieri, whose life is "loving and laughing and quipping and quaffing," they miss the right note of delicate gayety. They sing "Buon' giorno, signorine!" like the police in "The Birates" who found the wisest thing, tarantara, tarantara! was to slap their chests and sing, tarantara...

Author: By G. G. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/19/1932 | See Source »

Lily Pons insists that she will sing only ten years, then retire. With French frugality she should be able to. But even smart prima donnas find it hard to stop while they are successful. At 61 last year, Luisa Tetrazzini was singing in U. S. cinemansions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: San Francisco Memorial | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

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