Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Monastery of Our Lady of the Valley-among them a onetime Canadian Northwest "Mountie," a onetime department store manager, a onetime railway construction engineer, a onetime civil engineer, a World War aviator-labor daily in their fields and cowbarns. Save when all of them sing their psalms, recite their orisons, or when a few of them maintain necessary contacts with outsiders, these Cistercians speak no word, communicate their needs to one another in sign language. Like their famed but less ancient brother order, the Trappists, they are vowed to silence, poverty, chastity, obedience. Humbly, courteously they welcome and wait upon...
...York, the singing teacher told her frankly that if she liked to sing just for her own amusement, he would take her money. When she met Andy (Kent Taylor), a fresh pressagent, he was so rude she cried. To make amends he tried to exploit her farm background by having her drive a flock of geese across Broadway at the afternoon rush hour. For the first time in cinema history, newspapers treated this publicity stunt as wary metropolitan editors actually do treat such affairs- labeling it publicity and publishing it for its amusement value. Thereafter the story, scanning Wanda...
When erstwhile "Public Rat No. 1'' Merle Vandenbush robbed the Northern Westchester Bank in Katonah, N. Y. (pop. 1.500) last February, he put three employes and two customers behind the open grill gate of the vault. Two wrecks later, shortly before the captured Vandenbush was sentenced to Sing Sing, another gang held up the bank, again put staff and customers in the vault. Had the robbers in either case closed the vault's steel door on their victims, they would have suffocated. Last week, forehanded President Edward Fielder had the vault of his well-rifled bank fitted...
Once we went to the other extreme and rotted in Widener during the holidays preparing for a make-up exam. Never do it. It dries the skin. One's eyes become dull and glazed, like prisoners' in Sing Sing. And one can't keep one's self respect, cating in Hayes Bickford or Lowell House...
...unwritten law at St. Mary's required the new organist to marry his predecessor's wife or daughter. Buxtehude's daughter was so old and ugly that Bach went back to his organ post at Arnstadt. Authorities there began to complain that the congregation could not sing to his "many, wonderful variations" and "strange tonalities." Buxtehude had given Bach a technique instead of a bride...