Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...studying for the ministry at Pomona College, Calif. His father is the Rev. Shirley R. Shaw of the University Christian Church in San Diego. But there was also music in the Shaw family. Robert's mother, Nell Lawson Shaw, was a well-known West Coast church singer. His older sister, Hollace, made a soprano name for herself on the General Electric Hour of Charm radio program. Robert (who was working his way through Pomona by wrapping loaves of bread in a local bakery) became leader of the Pomona College Glee Club...
...Constitution Hall, to the first nonsegregated audience in the hall's history. From 30 to 40% of her 3,844 listeners were Negroes, who sat among Washington's social and political bigwigs, occupied at least 13 of the 52 boxes. "I'm so thrilled," said the singer, "I don't know how I feel...
...offices of the New York Sun and asked for a job. The Sun's executives snapped the applicant up. He was mnemonic John Kieran, for 16 years sports columnist for the New York Times, for four and a half years a Shakespeare quoter, birdlore expert, Latin scholar, jingle singer and general know-it-all of Information, Please...
Faced with many such free-style virtuosities, observers might not blame the average vain sitter portraitists.* But the few bravura, turn-of-the-century, super-official portraits such as John Singer Sargent's Mrs. Fiske Warren and Her Daughter, and Giovanni Boldini's Miss Edith Blair, smartly included in the show, looked rather like candy-box covers among the rest of the displays...
...cover the war in Africa because he is a typical "smalltown reporter"), Reginald Owen (a Nazi Intelligence officer posing as a British Intelligence officer), Edward Ciannelli (an Oriental mastermind) and Jeanette MacDonald engage in a game of deliberately slapstick I Spy. Climax comes when the sympathetic vibrations of Singer MacDonald's high C tickle open a secret door into a pyramid, foil a Nazi plot to bomb a U.S. transport by remote control...