Word: croon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Better World. In the nightclubs, songsters croon: "In a year, when Old Stephen will be as it once was. . . ." But it will be more like five years before the gutted cathedral will be rebuilt. Once, right after the liberation, hope of revival centered around Saint Stephen's, and men & women of all classes worked and carted away the sacred rubble. Now, foraging for food is more important...
...months have given concerts to strikers in Pittsburgh, New York City, and Schenectady. Its board of directors includes the No. 1 collector of American folk music, 31-year-old Alan Lomax (TIME, Nov. 26). Said he: "We're going to put more into our songs than June moon croon spoon swoon, and sing Bilbo out of Congress...
Rice-eating Southerners, the slim, shrewd sophisticates of Chekiang and Fukien, would go back to their poems, books and lotus seeds. Canton's markets and midnight snackeries would be abuzz again. The Hangchow people would see their lovely lakes. The Soochow girls would croon their languid songs...
Calling All Cars. In Chicago, Captain Wilbur Kennedy of the state police heard so many complaints from harassed and embarrassed couples that he issued an order: when approaching parked cars on dark and lonely roads, troopers are to cough, whistle or croon a lovesong...
...Crosby, on the lookout for some choice Crosby records ever since he lost his collection in the fire that destroyed his home last year, was reported by Columnist Harrison Carroll to have tracked down an out-of-the-way Ohio collector with 22 of them. Purchase price (to the croon tycoon): $3 apiece...