Word: sung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comes from a popular I.W.W. song, The Preacher and the Slaves: . . . Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie, in the sky, When you die- It's a lie! The song, written by Joe Hill (executed for murder in 1915) and sung to the tune of In the Sweet Bye and Bye, was intended to counteract Salvation Army propaganda, reflects orthodox radical agnosticism...
...bulls usually hold their own. Sportswriter John Kieran was able to distinguish between dodo, zobo, koto, Yo-Yo, popo, bolo, and locofoco. Scientist Bernard Jaffe, when asked what sextet had recently sung its way to fame, answered correctly: "The Seven Dwarfs." (Dopey was silent...
...Giovanni (Mon. 11:05 p.m. NBC-Blue). Act I of Mozart's greatest opera; sung by San Francisco Opera Co. Fritz Reiner conducts...
...Sung-Nein Tsao, of Peiping, China, as Research Follow in Bacteriology and Immunology...
...many-tongued Europe opera is usually sung in the language of the country where it is performed. In France Pagliacci becomes Paillasse, in Germany Bajazzo. But Americans, like Englishmen, take their opera neat, and often swallow an entire performance without understanding more than a few words...