Word: alackaday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opportunity for me to bring up provocative things in show business," he explains. "It discusses why some people are successful and some are not -originally, I wanted to call it So You Want to Be a Star?" The new, kittenishly pedantic Vallee style ("Radio as I knew it is, alackaday, no more, no more") is a frank imitation of one of Vallee's old teachers, Yale's William Lyon Phelps ("one of the most unrestrained, lackadaisical and uninhibited speakers in the world...
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