Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...urging his 3,000 employes to "get going" behind President Roosevelt. "Buy something-buy anything-anywhere! Paint your kitchen. Send a telegram. Give a party. Get a car. Pay a bill. Rent a flat. Fix your roof. Get a haircut. See a show. Build a house. Take a trip. Sing a song. Get married," cried the message. Edison employes were handed $5 each, told to 'spur on Recovery by buying something they would not otherwise have bought...
...came and with him rejoiced Spain's No. 1 Philosopher, famed Miguel de Unamuno, Rector of the University of Salamanca. With the whole city celebrating, anyone who looked like an Italian or a German was hoisted shoulder-high by Salamancans who in lisping Spanish did their best to sing the Italian Fascist anthem Giovinezza and the German Nazi Horst Wessel Lied...
Besides the orthodox "Chorus of Harvard Students," the Funsters are offering a special attraction in the form of a "Chorus of Biddies," led by one Mrs. Flaherty. La Flaherty will sing a featured number, "I Am the Queen of the Biddies," and will dance in the style of Anne Corio...
...Sing, Baby, Sing" endeavors to show what happens when a night-club singer is not a gold-digger. Alice Faye is that phenomenon, and her conduct is so amazing that even a movie news-reporter (Michael Whalen) is induced to take off his hat, and eventually to marry her. She really should have married Adolphe. Menjou, but then he was always drinking and reciting Shakespeare. Miss Faye is meant to be a personality girl in this picture, but she impresses us as being as pudgy and insipid as ever. The asininities of Ted Healy are a definite detraction; those...
Teamed at the University this week with a conventional bit of backstage vicissitude imaginatively dubbed "Sing, Baby, Sing", is an exhilarating anachronism from the days when baby still occasionally meant infant: a bona fide, unblushing Westerner called "The Texas Rangers...