Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sample task at Warwick: to prove to the boys that gangsters are no heroes. When Owney Madden, Manhattan thug, beer-&-whiskey runner, and night club operator, recently returned to Sing Sing (probably to escape competitors who want to maim him), Warwick boys wrote him letters which were sympathetic and full of hero worship...
...Through the Looking Glass, his operas Peter Ibbetson and The King's Henchman; George Gershwin's An American in Paris, Rhapsody in Blue, Second Rhapsody; Ferde Grofe's Five Pictures of the Grand Canyon and Metropolis; seven songs sung by Sir Harry Lauder. who will sing no song previously broadcast...
...heard Anna Held sing "won't you come and play wiz me?" in England. He invited her to New York and in 1896 put her into his first theatrical production A Parlour Match. For twelve years she played in one after another mildly daring show of his, became America's foremost showgirl and Mrs. Ziegfeld...
...funny as Amos & Andy. Says Bubber: ''You won't find nobody black as me that's less suprastitious." Says Jinx: "Just say you won't find anyone as black as you and stop. . . ." The Conjure-Man Dies is also probably the first detective story in which the characters sing an appropriate song: "I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal...
Wrote one Mary Reid of Manhattan: "Our canary bird Dicky Boy has for nearly a year absolutely refused to sing a single note. Every trick known to bird psychology was tried. . . . You can picture our amazement when after the final announcement was made, just at the big moment, so to speak, when the crowd broke loose, Dicky burst into song, far above the organ and the cheering, and continued thus to sing throughout the ovation, giving vent to his . . . hearty approval...