Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shouted to his comrades, pointing to Louis Waldman and Algernon Lee, president of the Rand School of Social Science. The two Rightists were not standing. A howl of rage broke from the convention. Amid the general yammering few heard Louis Waldman's answer: "I will not rise to sing a song of solidarity with a group that has just expelled us and split the Socialist party." After 15 hours of debate, the convention voted nearly 2-to-1 not to seat the Right delegation. Leftists applauded. The same evening Mr. Waldman & friends, including
...King Steps Out (Columbia) is a Central European romp in which Soprano Grace Moore sings six songs from an old Fritz Kreisler operetta called Cissy. One of the songs, Madly in Love, became more celebrated than it deserved when Miss Moore, who sang it in peasant garb while milking a cow, flounced off the Columbia lot vowing never to return. Said she: "I don't mind milking a cow or two in the course of a day, but also to sing all day is something else again. I have another public besides that one out in Hollywood...
...each other on the street and talked about him. To the students of English 12, Copey, cursing the Bolsheviki, praised the courage and loyalty of his Jack Reed. There were many who talked about wasted talent, and some whose pat phrases concealed relief. But in Atlanta and Leavenworth, in Sing Sing and Cook County Jail, in hundreds of prisons, and in the hiding-places of an outlawed Communist movement, men shut their jaws tight...
...favorites are all presented in a very pleasing score, sung by some of the original cast and by the capable Irene Dunne, who is supported by Allan Jones. Jones has an adequate tenor voice, which does full justice to the songs he is called upon to sing. Helen Morgan's "Bill" is as appealing as ever, and Paul Robeson is given ample opportunity to show how a great song like "Old Man River" should be sung...
...year for the rest of her life. Thus aired was an interesting domestic relationship. In 1926 Singer Hempel divorced her husband, supposedly to wed Millionaire Hecksher. Year later, she sued Millionaire Hecksher for breaking an oral contract to pay her $48,000 a year to "sing for no one but him." Philanthropist Hecksher settled with a written contract to pay her $15,000 a year for life, in return for which he retrieved numerous letters he had written her. Having paid Frieda Hempel her annuity for seven years, he halted last December, asserting Singer Hempel injured his "peace, quiet...