Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...words are usually from Scripture; the tune unpretentious-nothing so difficult as Bach or Handel. Majority of the anthems which plain churchgoers like, and which their choirs sing, come from the industrious pens of some 20 U. S. anthem-writers. Of these the most prolific is Mrs. Carrie Belle Adams. In Portland, Ore. last week Mrs. Adams sent off to her publishers four new anthems, baked a jelly cake, celebrated her 77th birthday...
...York's Sing Sing Prison, waiting to die this week for murdering her lover's wife, Mrs. Mary Frances Creighton was so overcome by fear that she could keep neither food nor water in her stomach, suffered paralysis from the waist down...
...some 10,000 graduate nurses, assembled last week in Los Angeles for concurrent conventions of three national nurses' associations, was to be blessed by a Protestant Episcopal bishop in the Hollywood Bowl. They next heard a "vested chorus" of Los Angeles nurses, who had practiced for months, gently sing Green Cathedral. Cinemactress Kay Francis who plays Florence Nightingale, nurses' special saint, in The White Angel (see p. 49), was put on exhibition, along with her director of this latest Warner Bros, cinematic biography. Handsome, informed Susan Catherine Francis of Philadelphia, president of the American Nurses' Association, talked...
...Cincinnati Zoo Opera spruced up its ten-week repertoire with Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson and The King's Henchman, offered such singers as Bruna Castagna, Anna Leskaya, Rosa Tentoni. Edward Molitore, Norman Cordon. Cordon, a North Carolina basso, used to sing on the Baume Bengue radio hour, made a small hit with the Metropolitan Opera's late spring season (TIME. May 25). C In Atlantic City the Steel Pier Opera opened its ninth season, with Henri Elkan conducting Martha. Ambitiously its repertoire included Bach's Phoebus and Pan, Beethoven's Fidelia, Debussy...
Amid thunderous cheers Rotarians elected as their international president for the coming year a Nashville lawyer named William R. Manier Jr., who has been an active Rotarian for 20 years. They listened to Amos O. Squire, consulting physician at New York State's Sing Sing Prison, declare: "Only rarely have I known of [Boy] Scouts landing in penal institutions." The Rotarians liked that because they are earnest supporters of boys' organizations. Then the Rotarians debated and tabled a resolution favoring prompt completion of the Inter-American Highway (see p. 44), debated and adopted a resolution "expressing interest...