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Word: singeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the ensemble assemble every once in a while, see the program for illumination on just what constitutes a while, and sing in a rather business-like fashion some good choruses that one can not remember. Queenie Smith is most of the show, as the headlines indicate, but even her contributions are not highly inspired. The fact that she can do well enough without a striking background only adds to her due of praise. The other individual parts are not badly done. The story is nothing unusual and arouses only casual interest. But then few people attend musical comedies...

Author: By G. F. M., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/29/1931 | See Source »

...series of German "sing-songs" will be held in the Lowell House Tower Room, every Wednesday between 7 and 8 o'clock. Under the leadership of J. MacL. Hawkes '26, instructor in German, the gatherings will render German music, chiefly students' songs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOLD GERMAN SING-SONG IN LOWELL TOWER ROOM | 10/28/1931 | See Source »

During much of one day's testimony Snorkey had his eyes on slim Beatrice. Lillie, who sat with the reporters. He wanted to meet her, but his lawyers objected. Chirruped Actress Lillie: "Well, I wasn't billed, but if pressed I'll sing a song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Capone & Caponies | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

Lacking anything to make it distinguished, Everybody's Welcome has enough of everything to make it diverting. Oscar Shaw & Harriette Lake sing a silly song ("Lease in My Heart") so well that it will probably become a minor hit. (Two nights after the play opened "As Time Goes By" was a major hit in Manhattan nightclubs.) Flexible little Ann Pennington dances as well as ever; the Albertina Rasch Girls give one good number, one poor one (pseudo-bolero). Funniest number: Thomas Harty in a crazy, drunken dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 26, 1931 | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...constantly on the edge of trouble. With a winning disposition, brazen effrontery, an excellent memory and a gift of the gab, he naturally turned . . . to the Law. Starting in Westchester County he soon rose to be Assistant District Attorney. In his prosecution of Warden Thomas Mott Osborne of Sing Sing for mismanagement and immorality he showed that he understood his job, but overplayed his hand and lost the case. "Not a prosecutor at heart," soon he was in Manhattan, in a role that fitted him like a glove : defense lawyer in criminal cases. Partner McGee did the ground work, Fallon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fowler on Fallon | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

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