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Word: calabash (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jeanne Olsen, when she was slowly dying in the early '40s. Though he later married again, he would invoke Jeanne's nickname at the end of his TV appearances: for a few seconds, Durante would turn uncharacteristically somber and then bow off with the line, "Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash, wherever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A King of Vaudeville | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

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