Word: croon
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...routine: he comes down into his radio audience with a portable mike. First he parks his gum with someone in the front row and retrieves it at the end of the hour, which is good for big laughs both times. Then he perches coyly on ladies' laps to croon his songs. Afterwards he plants a kiss on the prettiest girl he can find. The effect is uproarious...
Last week, an Austrian court declared the law unconstitutional, on grounds that it alienated property rights and ran counter to national interest. Bustards, which make a sound between a croon and a boom when excited, could again breathe easy. But Carinthian Socialists were not discouraged. Next on their list for nationalization: fishing...
...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...