Word: singing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just before the coffee, the orchestra struck up "The Sidewalks of New York." Governor Smith jumped to his feet. "Stop that," he yelled to the orchestra leader. "Wait a minute. Have you the music for 'The Bowery'?. . . Never mind. I'll sing a verse and you fellows [bowing to Messrs. Root, Hughes and the others] join in on the chorus." They did. Governor Smith's voice boomed forth in one of the stanzas...
...title poem of her new volume is a narrative, in couplets of prodigious tune and cacophony, of a crow whose beak was shot away by an Indian arrow. So marvelously could he then sing that universal applause shook the marshlands. The scrub oaks roared, the cattails clicked, The bumblebees lay down and kicked. A council of crows sat to hear the amazing music and departed mystified, all but a nunlike raven, who found the beakless Caruso and adored...
Thirty-eight citizens of Nashville, Tenn., sat in the Metropolitan Opera House last week and heard a performance of Al far below that of the numberless performances of this opera that have been given at the Metropolitan, but the 38 citizens had come to hear basso Joseph T. MacPherson sing the part of the King, and Joseph T. MacPherson was absent. Four years ago Basso MacPherson sang in a home talent benefit show to buy bats and balls for a sandlot ball-team on which he played. Singing teachers heard him, advised him to cultivate his voice. He gave...
...always been and so it will be until the millenium. Soldiers have said that war was hell, and have awaited eagerly the wars that brought promotions. Statesmen have declared that their particular war was a war to end war, and have returned from signing treaties of peace to sing appropriations for bigger and better armament...
...Davison's plan is that all the Freshmen should gather together and sing in a body. The glee club director believes that there are many college songs, which they are good are not sung by the students. He states that the singing of these songs, and other good musical pieces, will both be interesting, and open a new field for the Freshmen. He also pointed out that these combined meetings of the Freshmen would be the ideal place to teach the new college songs...