Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last few years an advocate has appeared for the "forgotten race," a man whose penetration, squareness, and sincere faith in humankind have won respect and obedience within, attention and reputation without penitentiary confines. For nearly thirteen years Lewis E. Lawes has been warden of Sing Sing prison, and during that period intermittent magazine articles have revealed a growing philosophy. In his first book, "20,000 Years in Sing Sing," he utters for the first time what may be regarded as a rough draft of the completed product of his meditations...
...their way back to life." Then in rapid anecdotal succession follows the fascinating story of Lawes, the builder of men, placed in a post where he could exercise his theories of rehabilitation. In this second section of the book, there passes before the reader a concise, clear view of Sing Sing today. And in the description of his $3,000,000 plant one discovers the secret of Warden Lawes's success. Mechanical details of organization are duly attended to, but predominant throughout is the personal, the human element. In focusing his attention, Lawes turns almost involuntarily from administration...
...Thee I Sing (Cont...
Public interest, already awakened by the staging of President Wintergreen's political activities in the Pulitzer Prize-winning success, Of Thee I Sing, will be further aroused by the publication of the ex-President's Diary. Edited by Author Morrie Ryskind, collaborator with George S. Kaufman in the play, it is the product of that scholar's diligent research: only after six months' digging (in the new subway on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue) did he finally succeed in unearthing it. It covers roughly the first four months of ex-President Wintergreen's administration. In its confidential pages the ex-President...
...Cave," by Mendelssohn; Waitz Number 15 by Brahms-Gericke; La Source, Ballet Suite, by Delibes, including Scarf Dance, Love Scene, Variation, and Circassion Dance; Scheherazade, Finale by Rimsky-Korsakov; Large by Handel (Solo violin--J. Theodorowicz, Harp, Organ, and Strings); Dance by Debussy, arranged by Ravel; "Of Thee I Sing" Selection, by Gershwin, "Loin du Bal" by Gillet; "Pomp and Circumstance" by Elgar...