Word: cheerio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oscar Levant). For years he set the beat at Chicago's College Inn and Manhattan's Roosevelt Grill. On the radio his pseudo-feuding with Walter Winchell became as famous as the sign-off he gave Jan. 15 for the last time: "Au revoir, a fond cheerio, a bit of toodle-oo, God bless you, and pleas-ant dreams...
...propensity for stealing scenes, neatly takes the picture away from him. Rooney cannot sing, but Judy Garland can, and proves it pleasantly with such sure-fire numbers as Waiting for the Robert E. Lee, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones; a new tune called Hoe Down; and a misfit: Chin Up, Cheerio, Carry...
...somewhere, give a tremendous musical, and gain fame, fortune, and Judy at the same time. We really couldn't say how it ends. We left in the middle of the city block scene, while Judy was singing a rousing spine-tingler that went, "Keep your chin up, Tommy Atkins, Cheerio, Carry on . . ." to the tune of "You Can Win Winsocki...
Every early-rising radio tuner in Greater New York and environs has certainly heard John B. (for Bradley) Gambling some morning or other. With his Musical Clock, his all-in-fun setting-up exercises, cheerio music, wheezy gags, weather information and news scraps, John B. Gambling has been a WOR fixture for 15 years. Once he was a British seaman on a World War I mine sweeper. He got his job at WOR as a technician in 1925 at $30 a week. Now he says he makes $25,000 a year at his early-bird program, has had a parade...
...dynamite at them and that held them back for a while. There was only one more round of ammunition apiece, and it was a thousand miles of green hell to the nearest civilization. Derek muttered. 'They won't make mincemeat out of me while I'm still alive. Cheerio, men.' He walked into the other room and there was a single shot. The cannibals charged again, and then a barrage of shots came from the other end of the clearing. 'Hurray,' shouted Brandy. 'Help has come. Now I'll be able to explore the Congo after all. He grabbed Stefani...