Word: singing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...highly amused and I was almost getting in the mood to sing other songs...
...Newark one Chin Hin, a member of the Hip Sing Tong, locked the thin door of his hall-bedroom, went to sleep. He was awakened by a soft repeated, terrifying knocking on the door. Summoning all his courage, he flung it open. There was no one outside. He returned to bed. An interval of silence; the sound began again. Once more Chin Hin, with cold sweat starting from him, threw open the door; once more he was met by vacancy. He turned his key; almost instantly, the knocking was resumed. Chin Hin, deranged by terror, jumped out of the window...
Rats. How many plague-infected rats have been observed by Dr. Evans? On what authority does he state that small creatures do not dance, attempt to fly or even to sing, under the dreadful propulsion of their final torment...
...tinkling cymbal, dream, when asleep, of the perfect piano. They seat themselves before a suave and sable instrument that is pliant to their will as none that mortal hands have ever fingered; it speaks for them with a mighty organ voice; notes, at the command of their subconscious will, sing with the pomp of trumpets or the tenderness of fiddles, yet it is no pipe organ that they play, but a crisp, living, leaping engine of wire strings and felted hammers. Such a dream-piano may have been made incarnate by InventorJohn Hays Hammond Jr., "smart son of a smart...
...Lucky Break. An insignificant comedy which should have been set to music, brought back to the stage George MacFarlane. He used to blend his baritone into the silken doings of light opera. In memory of this they gave him three songs to sing in addition to his acting. The latter was without distinction, fitting poorly into the whole scheme. He was a millionaire who suddenly lost his money and found the world immensely kind to millionaires without a cent...