Word: singsonged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...watched a squad of "Boy Scouts" (18 to 35 ) marching outside to the sharp military singsong of their officer. The professor looked at them proudly. "Each month 250 boys go through this school. They organize others. We are nonpolitical here and we take in boys from both the left and the right. But of course by graduation time they are unified in their political view." Then, rising, he added forcefully: "It might be said that this is the beginning of the Korean Army, when we have our independence...
...almost like Christmas, that night at Jim Downey's place. The old saloon was decked out in bunting and all the regulars were in, having a singsong. And there was Jim himself passing out creamy pints, on the house, for all the world as if beer was water from the town well. "By the holy," said the men of Dun Laoghaire (Kingstown that was), "if it isn't the birthday of a strike Jim's celebratin', and his place the one that's struck." Outside the pickets paused now & then...
...starved (TIME, May 6) echoed in China's Executive Yuan. Under Premier T. V. Soong, the Nanking Government ordered all civil servants to observe austerity. Items: no lavish gifts or ceremonies, no dancing. Those who enter taxi dancehalls or "any improper place" and those who "invite prostitutes or singsong girls to amuse them" would be fired...
...schooling, and celebrated by planting an oak tree on the grounds of the Peers' School. In a school-house built for his benefit next to the Palace grounds-to spare the prince a "dangerous" trip down the street-he had learned his lessons by rote and recited them, singsong fashion, with other young male aristocrats. He had also studied English with a British tutor, long resident in Japan, whose future under an American matriarchy remained in doubt...
Last week, Emperor Hirohito, on a dais in front of a gold-leaf screen, facing 35 morning-coated members of the Imperial Household, heard a chorus singsong through five winning poems in the annual Imperial Poetry Party...