Word: binge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make her U.S. debut in La Traviata at the Metropolitan. Last week she canceled the contract. Reason: a clause which provided that her husband Giovanni Battista Meneghini, an industrialist, would make the trip with her. The clause could not be fulfilled, despite the efforts of Met-Manager Rudolf Bing. The U.S. Consulate in Venice refused to give Giovanni a visa on the grounds that he could not prove intention to return to Italy...
...cinnamon flavor that tends to remind fans of happier days gone by-or soon to come. Moreover, thanks to the malocclusion of the Clooney jaw, her voice carries just a hint of a lisp. A word like "kiss" comes out a bit like "kish," and "caress" like "caresh." Like Bing Crosby, who attributed some of the distinctiveness of his early bu-bu-bu-boos to a node on his vocal cords, Clooney gets a sound that no competitor quite duplicates. In the ballad business, where distinctiveness is worth more than a clear high C, her voice is instantly recognizable...
...Metropolitan's Bing gave the season a bang by doing all but one of these...
...Lining up Hollywood's Bing for Figaro...
...will soon be cracking 'Ketchum and fleece 'em.'" As he felt the warm sun, Hannagan said: "Call it Sun Valley." Soon his bathing beauties were wearing skis. Hannagan hauled out trainloads of celebrities (e.g., 20th Century-Fox's Darryl Zanuck, Author Ernest Hemingway and Crooner Bing Crosby), knowing that if they liked it others would follow. Zanuck especially liked it; he even made a movie called It Happened in Sun Valley...