Word: singing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gitche Gumee, by the shining Big-Sea-Water, in a distant Bronx apartment, in fact, lives David Farjeon, 10. Last week the Manhattan music world waited, more or less anxious, to hear a musical setting he had composed for Poet Longfellow's "Hiawatha." Ethel Hayden, soprano, was scheduled to sing it at Carnegie Hall...
While in the monasteries the doctors studied the effects of diet on segregated men, at Sing Sing (New York state prison, Ossining) where men live under similarly "controlled" conditions, Dr. Amos T. Baker has set up a psychiatric clinic to learn the cause of imprisonment. Each day he will unravel the characters of three men to learn 1) their intelligence. 2) vocational possibilities, 3) future outlook on society. Said Warden Lewis E. Lawes of the project: "Some of the men we have here are pretty smart birds, and I expect some occasionally to put one over on the doctor...
...hasn't cause for too great fear. Even the most determined of its strangers remember the name in the haze of Student Council Budgets or Lecture Posters, and unanswered Social Service invitations as connected in some way with that little black notebook that we used when we had to sing Fair Harvard for the first time. That was a mighty handy little book, and it didn't cost anything either. We remember it had a map of Cambridge in it which proved a big help when we tried to find out where Quincy Street was after reading a little notice...
...miss this show. And sit near the front--the chorus is worth it. The ones who sing are covered up with lots of clothes, and stuck in the background, so that's all right...
While others asked the opinions of public officials on the Baumes laws, a feminine newsgatherer last week sought out her literary idol, Theodore Dreiser, the plodding individualist, whose trips to Sing Sing to watch convicts suffer were so necessary apart of his An American Tragedy (TIME, Jan. 25, 1926). He told her this...