Word: singing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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British advertising man, Sir Charles Higham, had many things to tell Londoners about "the United States today," her people who "have a child's heart and love to play and sing," and then, with a flourishing bow across the Atlantic, he said: "America has got the strongest President since Lincoln, and he will be re-elected on a Dry ticket, which will annoy the Wets more than ever...
...above the track. Here the trains stop and the burlies yank their reluctant companions to their feet, shove them shuffling ahead to the end of the car and down the steps. The train pulls out through a short tunnel as the burlies usher their charges off the platform into Sing Sing, New York's famed state penitentiary...
...high cards in this year's Scandals are numerous. There is Ann Pennington, whose knees are impudence itself; Harry Richman, night club interlocutor; Eugene and Willie Howard, Jewish comedians; Buster West, comic; McCarthy Sisters and Fairbanks Twins, who dance, sing; Tom Patricola, frantic dancer; Frances Williams, whose Charleston is notable; and Fowler and Tamara, brilliant ballroom artists...
Some 10,000,000 Britishers heard her sing over the radio, heard the little speech. Some 3,000 paid trebled prices to get into the theatre. Important correspondents, critics, wrote columns on her "brilliant farewell" on the same stage where she had made "triumphant début" 38 years before. Melba, happy, read their stories, sniffed a little at the "triumphant début," recalled her own version...
...Where do they sing: "Oh, please don't set the piano on fire...