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Word: singer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impressed was he that he engaged her for the following season to sing Mimi in La Boheme. When that time came she had used all her money; her cook had been buying the food out of her own savings. Even the day after her great success, Singer Stiles had to ask the cook for an additional two francs to buy her morning coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Elsa | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...Living Corpse. In Moscow, toward the end of the 19th Century, it was a gypsy singer, her grave gypsy songs, and the sultry, southern wines which drew Fedya Protasov away from his home and a sweet wife who tried helplessly to forget him. But Fedya, despite his weak lips and wanton tastes, was not the total wreckage that he seemed. For one thing, he never took advantage of the passion innocently offered him by his beloved Masha, the gypsy. For another, he never told lies, so that rather than commit the wholesale falsification necessary to give his wife a divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...cheerful voice. And before their radio sets throughout the land sat many other Welshmen. Next day at Cabinet meeting Secretary Davis announced: "Apparently most of the two million Welshmen in the U. S. heard me and every mother's son of 'em sent me a telegram." Singer-Secretary Davis was asked for his own translation of his hymn. He begged off, said he was too busy. His friend Rev. Robert Perry of Washington supplied what he termed a ''very free translation": The Blood of the Cross the weak exalteth, More than conquerors to be; The Blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Singing Secretary | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...Hennage (Q) defeated J. B. Walker '33, 15-12, 14-16, 15-10. Burgen (Q) defeated F.I. Young II '33, 15-6, 15-10, 12-15, 15-13. Barbour (Q) defeated R. H. Goodwin '33, 15-6, 15-10, 12-13, 15-13. Nordblom (Q) defeated Milton Singer '33, $13 15-10, 1$-15 15-$ R. H. Bates '33, defeated Rasmussen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO SQUASH TEAMS WIN FIRST TOURNEY GAMES | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...already distinctive collection of work by John Singer Sargent in the Fogg Museum has been substantially increased by the 41 sketches recently acquired. The location in Boston of the murals for which these are preliminary draughts makes them of particular interest to the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SARGENT SKETCHES | 11/22/1929 | See Source »

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