Word: singing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Throughout the U. S. the Hip Sings and On Leongs shot and hatcheted each other in 1917, again in 1924. During the past few months similar Chinatown killings have happened sporadically in New York, Newark, N. J., Chicago. U. S. newsreaders who thought "Tong wars" carry-overs from the days of native pomp, crime, and paganism were mistaken. Tongs are not, never were, ancient Oriental groupings for feuds. They are, instead, practical busi ness protective associations formed in the U. S. after the Civil War to keep Chinese laundrymen, restaurateurs, merchants, servants, etc. from molestation by competitors or the authorities...
...over the winter than at the present moment." ¶ Because pious Virginians protested that Marines guarding the President's Rapidan camp did not go to church. President Hoover ordered a Navy chaplain out from Washington, Sunday services held in the Marine mess hall. The President attended, heard Marines sing hymns to the tune of a small organ lent by the Y. M. C. A. ¶. The Hoover secretariat has long been troubled because it has not been able to build its "Chief" up with the sort of human-interest publicity which proved so helpful to Calvin Coolidge. Chief obstacle...
...Metropolitan, now chief of Stockholm's Royal Opera House, ordered all his bulky singers to reduce, U. S. operagoers were grateful to him for articulating what had been often thought but seldom said. Fat Swedish stars protested, saying that bulk aids musical beauty and that they sing best when they are well fed. But the order remained...
...final attempt to win him permanently to the Nationalist government. Smart Son Chang enjoyed the parties. At Wu's expense they ate bushels of fresh red caviar, gallons of bird's nest soup, mountains of sharks' fins, plovers' eggs, washed down by more gallons of champagne. Platoons of sing-song girls were imported. Merchants ransacked their storehouses for jewels, brocades and rare jades, with General Wu always footing the bill...
...huge Civic Exposition Auditorium, whence announcement went in 1920 that James Middleton Cox was the Democracy's choice for President, electricians last week put finishing touches to a hook-up of microphones. In an auditorium at Cologne, Germany, was similar activity. Three thousand German-American members of Saengerbunds (singing societies) in 34 U. S. cities, summoned by President William Esser of the Greater Pacific Saengerbund, were about to descend upon Civic Auditorium to celebrate in six concerts and competitions the silver jubilee of the Pacific organization. Meantime 5,000 members of the Rhenish Singers' Union were converging...