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Word: singerly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though their colleagues were losing to Yale at New Haven, the three Harvard orators, Elton McNiel '49, David Funk, NROTC, and Monroe Singer '47, salvaged a two-to-one decision to defeat the visiting Tiger team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flying Tiger Debaters Defeated by Crimson | 5/11/1946 | See Source »

Defending the negative viewpoint against a visiting Princeton team will be David Funk, NROTC, Elton C. McNeil '49, and Monroe S. Singer '47; this contest will begin at 8 o'clock in the Adams House Upper Common Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard, Yale, and Princeton To Begin Debates Tomorrow | 5/9/1946 | See Source »

...star singer was Velma Middleton, a 250-lb. lady named-by the Gagwriters Association-Miss Petite of 1946. She waddled through Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy and then did a split which almost literally brought down the house. But when Louis, grinning wickedly, pursed his gigantic lips against his trumpet to play / Can't Give You Anything but Love or Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well, patient ears still heard the purest phrasing and most expert blowing around. There was no doubt about it-Louis ("Reverend Satchelmouth") Armstrong, after 30 years in the business, was still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Reverend Satchelmouth | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

Outstanding treat of the show is Susan Reed, the folk song singer of Cafe Society fame. Twanging on her lyre, she narrates the unportrayed episodes of the drama at intervals between the swiftly moving seenes. Her charms, however, prove incapable of restraining a restless audience, hastening to leave, before she concludes the show. This is bad management on the part of the producers, who should know that the average audience has got to have a shock or a thrill right up to the last second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/27/1946 | See Source »

...Reynolds, at 20, was found shot dead at Reynolda in 1932. His second wife, Torch Singer "Libby" Holman, and his secretary were indicted for murder, but charges were later dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: 110-Mile Walk | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

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