Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police, the crowd retreated, relieved its feelings by tossing bricks through the windows of the Casa del Pueblo (founded by Ibanez). Then it gathered in front of the home of Miguel Letelier who had been suggested in the evening papers as Minister of the Interior, and set up a sing-song chant, "Don't join the Cabinet! Don't join the Cabinet...
...Italy, where he is still an Army Major, Lauri-Volpi has worked hard to become a great singer. He planned to sing there as usual this year. But he asked for more than $1,000 a night, special billing, special advertising, best dressing-rooms, and of course a No. 1 star rating. Crushingly from Rome last week came an official communiqué of the Consortium of Lyric Theatres which controls all the lyric theatres and opera houses in Italy, as well as all concert artists under contract. Because of "excessive special conditions," Lauri-Volpi was for an indefinite length...
...Raisa sings some 80 roles; she began her career by studying coloratura as well as dramatic parts. Her favorites are Norma and Aida (she feels the "terrible oppression" they suffered), Rachel in Halévy's La Juive ("It is of my own land . . . my race, which in Poland suffered inconceivable persecutions") and Maliella in The Jewels of the Madonna ("a vamp type . . . brilliant temperament of a feminine mind"). In 1924 Arturo Toscanini, then director of La Scala in Milan, offered her the leading soprano role in the world premiere of Arrigo Boito's posthumous Nerone. Regretfully...
Nora Bayes, Sam Bernard, Hazel Dawn, Al Jolson and some others are sitting with Diamond Jim and Lillian, a quiet, friendly supper party with wit and wine. Miss Russell asks Miss Bayes to sing. Miss Bayes, reincarnated in electric yet mellow Ruth Etting, arises simply and simply sings "Shine on Harvest Moon." Hardened revue-goers call it the smash song of this summer on Broadway, all Little Shows and Band Wagons notwithstanding...
...baseless rumor that the President would soon make an important announcement regarding credits to Latin American countries (see p. 10). Long deferred investment buying appeared. Vivid tales were told of big bears trapped, fretting behind the bars of higher prices. One venerable member of the Exchange was heard to sing that old bull war chant of the Chicago Wheat Pit: "He who sells what isn't his'n must buy it back or go to prison." And even the most sanguine of optimists was willing to concede that the song was applicable in any market last week, that...