Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surely someone on the staff has heard the tiny silver bird in the sculpture group mark the hour by its song. Perhaps you object to being given the bird every hour on the hour...
Last week the official London Gazette announced that Dr. Watts had been awarded the George Medal for "courage and devotion to duty of the highest order." Admonishing reporters not to "make a song and dance about it," Watts reluctantly gave a few pointers on method: "I started knowing that such a small object, to be explosive, had to have an acid-operated fuse or an electric current. Gentle prodding told me which. These letter bombs were all of the electric-fuse type. All I had to do was to find the wires between battery and fuse, snip them and breathe...
...Karajan had the help of two crack stage directors, Hans Caspar Nehar and Oskar Fritz Schuh, who had studied under Reinhardt in Berlin. They gave the production two notable Reinhardt touches. After Eurydice's funeral, the mountain wall which towers up behind the stage came alive with song; a chorus of 65 demons had been strung along its side. In the following scene, in which Orpheus arrives in Elysium, the theater's canvas roof was rolled back, revealing a starlit summer...
Overhead, another American plane roars past. Through the balcony windows come the strains of a popular American song. It is: To Each...
...philosophy has been No. 1 on the undergraduate hit parade (top lecturer: the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen). But C.U.'s most famed department is speech & drama (TIME, July 7, 1947), whose professional-looking amateur theatricals have found a backstairs to Broadway for such productions as Lute Song, The Song of Bernadette and Sing Out, Sweet Land...