Word: singing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average convict is a young God-fearing native of the U. S., according to the annual report of Lewis E. Lawes, Warden of Sing Sing Prison at Ossining, N. Y. He says that out of the 1,452 prisoners, 1,445 profess membership in some religious denomination, 1,034 are native Americans, 1,008 held jobs at the time of their crime, 707 had gone to school up to the sixth grade, 67 have college degrees (an increase from 19 for the previous year). The average age of the prisoners...
...Leander", a song that needs no comment because everyone will soon know it by heart; Doris Patston, a pert lass who captivates; Jack Sheehan, comedian, who exchanges an honest laugh for every minute of the audience's attention; Lilian Davies, prima donna, and Allan Prior, tenor, who can sing, act, and look handsome all at the same time. With its old fashioned harmonies and duets, Katja stands first in the lists of current operettas, a formidable champion to dispute the supremacy of Sir Jazz in the tournament of musical entertainments...
...integrated Yale man with his strong community feeling. Viewed from New Haven, Harvard College seems a heterogeneous, uncoordinated, fortuitous aggregation of individuals with no more unity than the population of an apartment house; whereas Yale College--not Yale University, which is a very different thing, likes to sing about itself as "amiciusque and areas." And in Yale, where a simple piety seems more common, at any rate in certain nucleate of religious sentiment, than in most colleges, the religion of Harvard tends to appear as mere materialistic skepticism...
...length she mentioned music. She was Chicago-bound, to sing for four weeks in a new opera, Judith, with music by Arthur Honegger, the Frenchman, and libretto by the French-Swiss M. Morax. Chicagoans pricked up their ears at this: "Compared with Judith, Salome** is only a nursery rhyme, a lullaby, and the critics had better start sharpening their pencils...
Died. Thomas Mott Osborne, 67, pioneer in prison reform, onetime (1914-15 and 1916) warden of Sing Sing, newspaper editor;* at Auburn, N.Y., of heart disease. He dropped dead on the street. Later, 1,200 convicts of Auburn Prison marched solemnly past his bier. In 1913 he became "Tom Brown," entered Auburn Prison as a convict, A week later he came out with a philosophy of prison reform. His plan was to restore the prisoner's self-respect and help him maintain it. The key to self-respect, he believed, is labor...