Word: sung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monday morning Laundry Bag Sweepstakes was won this week by Sing Sang Sung, formerly of East Somerville. The local boy managed to abscond with all the laundry bags in Randolph, thus setting a new interdormitory record. On the fifth landing he gained a certain victory by throwing the remaining bags out of the window to a team-mate below. These weekly competitions of the laundries are limited to no sect or nationality, and are run on a pure sporting basis. By tacit agreement the laundry bags are the lawful prize of the first comer. When the scramble through the entries...
...that time, she had already enjoyed triumphs in Italy, in Mexico, in Buenos Aires, where the enraptured citizens had fired off cannon and drawn her carriage, snowed under with flowers, through the streets. But Covent Garden was the test stronghold of musical recognition and, though she had sung Lucia over 200 times, her large, dimpled knees, she freely admitted, trembled on that night. After the first act, they trembled no longer; for the Inglesi made her appear 20 times before the curtain, clapping her long, and even cheering her in their funny, diffident way. Later that evening, the famed Patti...
...Manhattan Opera House, Manhattan, for which she received $2,500 a performance. She afterwards sang with the Metropolitan, the Boston Opera Company- "gala seasons" all. Her last U. S. appearance was in Trenton in May, 1921- a concert with which she ended a prolonged tour. Since, she has sung occasionally here and there, but for the most part lived quietly at her various villas, working at her recently published autobiography...
George Darling, a young and studious butterfly collector, is to be played by J. C. MacDonald '26, who was the leader of the Freshman Glee Club two years ago and who since then has sung with several of the college musical clubs. Abercrombie, his man servant, is played by J. H. Wright '25, the most talented musician in the cast. He is a member of both the banjo and mandolin clubs and an able performer on the saxophone...
Wisconsin, which won the mid-U. S. contest two weeks ago (TiME, March 9). failed to warble as satisfactorily as some of the others. The judges (Ralph L. Baldwin, Arthur Bodansky, Kent Schindler) came to a quick conclusion that Yale had sung best, Princeton next, Missouri next...