Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first act ended and the crowd applauded vigorously. I was amazed at the way Martinelli and the other singer took their curtain calls. They seemed as happy as kids. (I'll admit that when I was a "kid" and an eminent actor in my own small way I was usually not happy in a jovial sense when the curtain come down but rather happy in the sense of being-relieved. However, it is true that my curtain calls were rare, and besides, "happy as kids" makes a pleasant if inaccurate simile.) They danced around and grinned at each other...
Those receiving the awards were Hugh C. Cutler, research associate in the Botanical Museum, Richard E. Schultes '37, research associate in the Botanical Museum, Lloyd A. Metzler, instructor in Economic, Gordon N. Ray, instructor in English, Marck Schorer, Briggs-Copeland Faculty Instructor in English Composition, Rolf Singer, research associate in Mycology, and Otto Benesch, research fellow and special lecturer at Wellesley College...
Just turned eighteen, Lois Andrews, pride of California's beauty contests, and wife of comedian George Jessel, turned up at the Crimson Network yesterday, on the second anniversary of her ejection from a Boston night club. At that time, the youthful singer-dancer was sixteen, but people thought she was at least twenty. That is everyone except the authorities, who looked at official records, instead of the more obvious facts in her favor...
Gertrude Niesen's $2,000,000 marble palace in Newport (bought for the torch-singer by Mama Niesen for $20,000) was visited by a man from the water department when the meter had run up a $600 bill. He walked in on a 50-room skating rink, on floors buried under half a foot of ice, to see the grand staircase a magnificent frozen waterfall. The pipes had frozen and burst...
...production committee this spring will consist of Miles Chubb '48, Franklin Hancock '44, Robert G. Neiley '43, Charles Rheault '45, Alvin Ruml, '45, John Sterne '45, Martin Singer '45, and Rollo Thompson...