Word: singing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report spread through Pennsylvania last week that Robert Elliott, official executioner for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts, had collapsed and resigned his posts after doing his lethal duty by Murderers Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray at Sing Sing Prison last fortnight. The report was false. Executioner Elliott had neither collapsed nor resigned. Nor did he collapse late last week when he pulled the switch that sent Leon Scovern, 20, to death for the murder of a sweetheart's brother...
...from the sky into a thunderstorm of welcome. A huge banner billowed out the words "Envoy of Peace and Good Will from Coolidge." An excited restauranteur sprinkled champagne in the street over which he was to pass. National Holiday was declared. Speeches. Eight hundred native school children held a "sing song" for him in front of the U. S. Legation. He made one of his shortest speeches: "I thank you for the reception accorded me." No references were made in the adjectivally enthusiastic press to the recent fatal fighting between natives and U. S. Marines...
...invalid whose gallantries on a battlefield more severe than that of love permitted him to anticipate only one bravery more. Charles Orbison, waiting, in the warm sun, for death to reward him for the wounds he had suffered in the War, saw Claire Ambler and heard her sing once, beautifully and out of a rare simplicity. Claire, not very inexplicably, fell in love with this quiet sardonic man who gently criticized the coquetries she was distributing between a young Fascist and a pair of shady young Neapolitan noblemen. Suddenly understanding that death would be more terrible for Charles Orbison...
...Mary Garden, star of many performances of the past, Marie Claessens and Rene Mason, who has just completed his successful debut season in Chicago. Vanni-Marcoux, who is a former member of the Boston Opera, and who has always been a favorite in Boston, is also scheduled to sing. Another veteran musician, Giorgo Polacco, the conductor, will partake in the performance...
...were visiting the Manhattan headquarters of the International Workers of the World, on an industrial seminar arranged by the social relations department of the Congregational Church, read this song in the I.W.W. hymn book and smiled. Owing to the politeness of I.W.W. members they were not called upon to sing it; they joined, instead in carolling another I.W.W. hymn of which the words were less derisive...