Word: singing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steamer President Jackson docked at Manila to the blare of trumpets, hooting of whistles, insane racket of rockets, Roman candles, bombs, pistols, firecrackers. Students of the Philippine Women's College endeavored to sing the Hymn of Freedom. Down the gangplank strode Senator Sergio Osmena, took his proper place in the van of a colorful street parade proceeding through Luenta Public Park where Filipino lovers love o' nights. The Senator, who is credited with having defeated in 69th Congress repressive Filipino legislation, then called upon Col. Thompson, finally issued a statement. Said he: "Americans as a whole have...
...empire lies silent amid the weald and the marsh and the down country of Sussex. England has lost the recorder of the glories that were hers in the day of conquest. The world has lost a singer." Amid the "weald" of Sussex, Mr. Kipling remained alive, did not sing...
Ordinarily about 40 or 50 convicts go "up the river" every day. But last week New York Central employees noticed a sudden burst of activity. Between 90 and 110 crooks per day were getting off at Sing Sing, and the strange part of it was, all of them seemed cheerful, anxious to reach their destination. It seemed almost like a stampede for incarceration-and that is what...
...York was about to change its prison code. Convicts entering Sing Sing on and after July 1 were to be subject to new, stricter parole and commutation rules. In the detention cells of many counties, yeggs and firebugs, stickers and rodmen, auto thieves, foot-pads, forgers and dips were clamoring to plead guilty, waive their defenses, and be let into the big "pen" with all despatch. By the end of the week Sing Sing was crammed like a seaside hotel, its accommodations for 1,540 guests overflowing with 1,561 and more to come. About 1,800, in all, were...
...Sing Sing crammed like a seaside hotel...